Sentences with wildcatter
wild·cat·ter
W w - A wildcatter is to the oil business what the cowboy was to the wild West - independent, self-reliant, and dedicated to a single passion: the sniffing out of elusive oil and gas deposits.The operator was a wildcatter, prepared to drill the first well in unproven territory.A wildcatter is someone searches for oil or gas in an area which is not known to have any reserves.
- Roy Weatherby began his career in the firearms industry as a “wildcatter”, developing his revolutionary ideas about rifle cartridge performance and design. [1]