A framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered

Usage examples of derrick.

Close behind, Arabists are ululating, shrill, merciless, among the red-orange stars over the crowds of derricks.

Arriving at the dock, the buckets were lifted by electrically-operated stiff-leg derricks and their contents deposited on scows for final disposal.

Derrick tells anyone else-and Captain Henery and his crew in the orbiting ship: The whole human population of Canis IV-notified of Predicted Earthquake Number 0001.

When the docks are all deserted and the derricks all are still, And the wind across the anchorage comes singing sad and shrill, And the lighted lanthorns gleaming where the ships at anchor ride Cast their quivering long reflections down the ripple of the tide, Then the ships they start a-yarning, just the same as sailors do In a hundred docks and harbours from Port Talbot to Chefoo, Just the same as deep-sea sailormen a-meeting up and down In the bars and boarding-houses and the streets of Sailor-town.

The men on the drillship had not been able to detect the direction from which the arrows had come, and several were still in sight, crouched against a bulkhead or a corner of the derrick base.

We went by my apartment so Derrick could retrieve his bottle of Glenlivet, then I took him back to the hotel.

Derrick used the information about my whereabouts to break into my house, crank-call me, and feed the Oregonian anonymous tips about my sex life.

The triumphs in political, civil, church, scholastic, and army life have been attested by such men as Douglass, Bruce, Washington, Langston, Revels, Walters, Turner, Derrick, Grant, Pinchback, Councill, Lyons, Cheatham, White and Dancy, not to speak of a host of younger men of journalistic careers, that, according to opportunity, compare favorably with those of greater reputations.

Neither Magnus Derrick, Broderson, Annixter, nor Osterman actually owned all the ranches which they worked.

They came to the oil fields in airplanes and private cars and looked at the derricks hungrily, regarding them as the producers of fur coats, imported limousines, French maids, and Sealyham terriers.

Chateau-Gaillard was like any other pulp-town--a new pier with mighty derricks, the tall white cylinders of the pulp mill, a big brick office, and a cluster of clapboard shacks which badly needed painting.

Magnus cast a glance at the contents of the letter, then rose to his feet and read: Magnus Derrick, Bonneville, Tulare Co.

Blown-up photographs of oil derricks and of the Turner Valley field decorated the stairs and from wooden-partitioned offices on the second floor came the clatter of typewriters and the more staccato clacking of a tape machine.

This was an innovation in the San Joaquin, an idea of shrewd, quick-witted young Annixter, which Harran and Magnus Derrick had been quick to adopt, and after them Broderson and Osterman, and many others of the wheat growers of the county.

Magnus Derrick and old Broderson and Osterman and all the ranchers of the county.