derrick
3
8.3
- noun
- /ˈdɛrɪk/
- Specialized
:
torre de perforación
- Like an oil derrick.
- oil derricks
- derricks and pumps
- derricks and rigs
Examples
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A group of men stood inside a derrick, pulling a chain back and forth.
Fiction book (1990) -
And I have an oil derrick pumping 24/7 in my backyard on the Madison isthmus.
Blog text (19) -
I never wanna see another oil derrick as long as I live.
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"It's as far from a celebration of the natural world as an oil derrick," he said.
Fiction book (1994) -
There were no pumps or derricks visible from here.
Fiction book (1990) -
After World War II, production declined, and the city was gradually left with rusted oil derricks and rigs.
Academic text (1998) -
From Monahans to Pecos, where oil derricks peck at the sagebrush, is capital-U ugly.
Fiction book (2002) -
The tall derrick swayed gently in the wind as the crew prepared to drill for oil beneath the surface.
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Workers carefully inspected the derrick before starting the drilling operations at the oil well.
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A large derrick stood prominently above the oil field, ready to extract valuable resources from the ground.
Synonyms
24
3.5
A large platform with machines that drill oil and gas on land or at sea
6
4.1
A large machine that makes holes in the ground to get oil or gas
1
5.1
A large machine that drills wells to get oil or gas
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word derrick comes from the name of a 17th-century London hangman, Derrick, whose tall gallows were a strong frame for 'hanging'. Because those gallows looked like a big lifting frame, people later used the name for cranes and similar structures, so an oil derrick is the tall frame over a well that supports drilling equipment.