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tool push(er)

Oil Drilling

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the foreman of a drilling crew.

Quotations

1957

Keith Brown, tool push for Can-American Drilling Co., and three assistants, negotiated the iron behemoth over treacherously icy roads on a ten-ton tandem truckbed.

1960

[The] tool pusher . . . spudded (began drilling) on March 1. . . .