Definition of Rock bit

1. Noun. A drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers.

Exact synonyms: Roller Bit
Generic synonyms: Drill Bit, Drilling Bit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Bit

rock-hard
rock-jumper
rock-jumpers
rock-ribbed
rock-steady
rock & roll
rock 'n' roll
rock 'n' roll musician
rock along
rock band
rock bands
rock barnacle
rock beauty
rock bit (current term)
rock bottom
rock brake
rock bun
rock buns
rock cake
rock candy
rock climber
rock climbing
rock cocaine
rock concert
rock crabs
rock cress
rock crystal

Literary usage of Rock bit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Drill Work, Methods and Costs: A Practical Treatise Covering the Methods by Ray Rochester Sanderson (1911)
"A Spudding bit is for use in sand, clay, gravel, etc., and is made somewhat thinner than a regular rock bit owing to the fact that in drilling in material ..."

2. Handbook of Rock Excavation, Methods and Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1916)
"52c shows the fluted rock bit which is the type generally used. Fig. 52d shows a four winged bit of a character which makes a, straight round hole difficult ..."

3. Handbook of Rock Excavation, Methods and Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1916)
"52c shows the fluted rock bit which is the type generally used. Fig. 52d shows a four winged bit of a character which makes a straight round hole difficult ..."

4. Handbook of Rock Excavation, Methods and Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1916)
"Fig. i>2c shows the fluted rock bit whicli is the type generally used. Fig. 52d shows a four winged bit of a character which makes a straight round hole ..."

5. Deep Well Drilling: The Principles and Practices of Deep Well Drilling, and by Walter Henry Jeffery (1921)
"When boulders are encountered in this material, it is necessary to use a rock bit, as the cutting edge and corners of the gravel bit are too thin to ..."

6. Deep Well Drilling: The Principles and Practices of Deep Well Drilling, and by Walter Henry Jeffery (1921)
"When boulders are encountered in this material, it is necessary to use a rock bit, as the cutting edge and corners of the gravel bit are too thin to ..."

7. A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)
"141), to connect the bit with the drill pipe. The rock bit is now widely used and its effectiveness in cutting (milling) through hard structures has reduced ..."

8. Modern Tunneling by David William Brunton, John Allen Davis, John Vipond Davies (1922)
"... overlying the rock must first be mined out and timbered, while the process of drilling and blasting proceeds in the removal of the rock bit by bit. ..."

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