Definition of "oil well" []

• A hole drilled or dug in the earth from which petroleum flows or is pumped. Also called oiler. (noun)

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• "ON THE GULF OF MEXICO-A growing collection of crippled equipment littered the ocean floor Sunday near a ruptured oil well gushing crude into the Gulf of"