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slips [′slips] (engineering) A wedge-shaped steel collar fabricated in two sections, designed to hold a string of casing between various portions of the drilling operation.
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One o'clock struck, two, three, four--and still the slips flew about all round him; still the untiring pen scraped its way ceaselessly from top to bottom of the page, still the white chaos of paper rose higher and higher all round his chair. Ere long, it is taken down; when removing some three feet of it, towards the pointed extremity, and then cutting two slits for arm-holes at the other end, he lengthwise slips himself bodily into it. It was the rejection slips that completed the horrible machinelikeness of the process. |
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