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horsehead [′hȯrs‚hed]
(mining engineering)
Timbers or steel joists used to support planks in tunneling through loose ground.
(petroleum engineering)
A curved section of the walking beam of a beam pumping unit installed in an oil well.
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[FIGURE 7 OMITTED] The current estimates of age-at-length are considerably higher than those reported previously by Mann and Evans (1998) for oysters collected at Horsehead Reef (reef 3).
Population studies of the native Eastern oyster, Crassostrea ... by Mann, Roger; Southworth, Melissa; Harding, Juliana M.; Wesson, James A. / Journal of Shellfish Research
 
 
 
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