jack up
Example Sentences
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In the area at the time were two wind farm crew transfer vessels and a tugboat towing a jack-up maintenance barge.
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2023
The fire broke out around midday Thursday on the jack-up oil rig in Sabine Pass, where the Texas-Louisiana border meets the Gulf of Mexico.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2022
“I think we can see utilization moving into the 80s during the next 12 months,” Borr’s Chief Executive Simon Johnson told Reuters, referring to jack-up rigs, used in shallow waters.
From Reuters • Oct. 4, 2017
Sari had in mind a smaller type of oil platform known as a jack-up, of which there were many hundreds filling the seas.
From The Guardian • May 2, 2017
If once of a rattlin' good rifle I'm owner, A thing as won't jack-up or jam, I don't care.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 29, 1890 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.