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Swabbing

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Swabbing 

an obsolete method of extracting oil from a well by means of a piston suspended on a cable. Swabbing is sometimes used in completing new wells or in reestablishing the flow of oil in wells that have already been producing.



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While the glowing enthusiast was swabbing the perspiration from his face, I said:
He was a "squeedgie" man; his job was to go about all day with a long-handled mop, swabbing up the floor.
Harvey looked up from his swabbing at the bottom of another dory just above his head.
 
 
 
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