Definition of "go-devil" [go•-dev•il]

• A logging sled. (noun)
• A railway handcar. (noun)
• A jointed tool for cleaning an oil pipeline and disengaging obstructions. (noun)
• An iron dart dropped into an oil well to explode a charge of dynamite. (noun)

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• ""Well, this is running your westing down if anybody should ride up in a go-devil and ask you.""
• "It's little more than the military version of a putt-putt buggy and no reason imaginable exists for the go-devil venturing off-base."
• "Toward the end of the second day, Arapaho Brown began preparing a “go-devil” to finish off the Regulators."