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nodding donkey
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nodding donkey
n
(Mining & Quarrying) Informal (in the oil industry) a type of reciprocating pump used to extract oil from an inland well
[so called from its shape and movement]


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And he stays out of the wayAuso distant from mountains of bald tires or rows of pumpjacks or junked fighter planes or the fearful symmetries of suburbia seen from above or road signs in Breezewood, Pa.
At an oil field just a few kilometres (miles) away, pumpjacks rock back and forth and pipes belch fire over a patch of blackened soil, burning off unneeded gas, a legacy of the Soviet oil industry that began on Sakhalin in the 1920s.
Byline: BRIDGET JOHNSON PASSING the Signal Hill pumpjacks the other day, which are nestled everywhere from outside a coffee shop to the lot of a used-car dealership, I had a thought in this beautiful coastal region which inspired the fictional oilman Daniel Plainview in "There Will Be Blood.
 
 
 
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