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derrick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Derrick \Der"rick\, n. [Orig., a gallows, from a hangman named Derrick. The name is of Dutch origin; D. Diederik, Dierryk, prop. meaning, chief of the people; cf. AS. pe['o]dric, E. Theodoric, G. Dietrich. See Dutch, and Rich.]
A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, and usually pivoted at the base, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, such as stones in building.
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(Mining) The pyramidal structure or tower over a deep drill hole, such as that of an oil well (also called an oil derrick .
Derrick crane, a combination of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, originally "hangman," then "a gallows," then "hoist, crane" (1727), from surname of a hangman at Tyburn gallows, London, c.1606-1608, often referred to in contemporary theater. The name represents a late borrowing from the Low Countries (compare Dutch Diederik) of Old High German Theodric (see Dietrich).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device that is used for lifting and moving large objects 2 A framework that is constructed over a mine or oil well for the purpose of bore or lowering pipes. 3 A hangman (context obsolete English)
WordNet
n. a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered
a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom
Wikipedia
thumb|upright=1.5|Horst Tappert at a reception of the Chancellor in 1971, with colleague Heidi Hansen (left) and minister Katharina Focke
Derrick is a German TV crime series produced between 1974 and 1998 starring Horst Tappert as Detective Chief Inspector (Oberinspektor) Stephan Derrick, and Fritz Wepper as Inspector (Kriminalhauptmeister) Harry Klein, his loyal assistant. They solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings (with three unsolved cases in total). It was produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG
On 2 May 2013 ZDF announced it would no longer carry reruns of the show, after it emerged that Tappert had been untruthful in discussing his service in the Waffen-SS in World War II.
A derrick is a lifting device, especially in an oil field. The word may also refer to:
- Derrick (name)
- Derrick (TV series), a German television series
- Derrick Comedy, a comedy group of film students and writers based in New York City
A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks have at least two components, either a guyed mast or self-supporting tower, and a boom hinged at its base to provide articulation, as in a stiffleg derrick.
The most basic type of derrick is controlled by three or four lines connected to the top of the mast, which allow it both to move laterally and cant up and down. To lift a load, a separate line runs up and over the mast with a hook on its free end, as with a crane.
Forms of derricks are commonly found aboard ships and at docking facilities. Some large derricks are mounted on dedicated vessels, and known as floating derricks and sheerlegs.
The term derrick is also applied to the framework supporting a drilling apparatus in an oil rig.
The derrick derives its name from a type of gallows named after Thomas Derrick, an Elizabethan era English executioner.
Derrick is both a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
- Derrick Adkins (born 1970), American 400 m hurdles world and Olympic champion
- Derrick Atkins (born 1984), Bahamian sprinter
- Derrick Atterberry (born 1972), American football player
- Derrick Bell (born 1930), professor of law
- Derrick Bird, the perpetrator of the 2010 Cumbria shootings
- Derrick Bostrom (born 1960), original drummer for the band Meat Puppets
- Derrick Brew (born 1977), American 4x100 m relay runner
- Derrick Brooks (born 1973), former National Football League (NFL) player
- Derrick Burgess (born 1978), former NFL player
- Derrick Caracter (born 1988) National Basketball Association (NBA) player
- Derrick Chievous (born 1967), retired collegiate and NBA basketball player
- Derrick Coleman (born 1967), retired NBA player
- Derrick Dockery (born 1980), NFL player
- Derrick Fenner (born 1967), former NFL player
- Derrick Frost (born 1980), former NFL punter
- Derrick Gardner (born 1965), American jazz trumpeter
- Derrick Gardner (American football) (born 1977), American football player
- Derrick Green (born 1971), heavy metal vocalist
- Derrick Harriott (born 1939), Jamaican singer and record producer
- Derrick Harvey (born 1986), NFL player
- Derrick Z. Jackson (born 1955), African American journalist
- Derrick Jensen (born 1960), American author and environmental activist
- Derrick Johnson (born 1987), African American, Perfesonal Chef
- Derrick Johnson (cornerback) (born 1982), former NFL player
- Derrick Todd Lee (born 1968), convicted serial killer
- Derrick Henry Lehmer (1905–1991), American mathematician
- Derrick Mason (born 1974), NFL player
- Derrick May (baseball) (born 1968), former Major League Baseball (MLB) player
- Derrick May (musician) (born 1963), American electronic musician
- Derrick McKey (born 1966), former NBA player
- Derrick Morgan (born 1940), reggae and ska musician
- Derrick Morgan (American football) (born 1989), NFL player
- Derrick Oden (born 1970), American football player
- Derrick Plourde (1971–2005), American punk rock drummer
- Derrick Pope (born 1982), former NFL player
- Derrick Rose (born 1988), NBA player
- Derrick Sebagala (born 1984), Ugandan web developer, web designer, entrepreneur and businessman
- Derrick Shepherd (born c. 1960), American attorney and politician, former Louisiana state senator
- Derrick Sherwin (born 1936), British television producer, writer, and actor best known for his work on the Dr. Who series
- Derrick Strait (born 1980), former NFL player
- Derrick Thomas (1967–2000), NFL player
- Derrick Turnbow (born 1978), former MLB player
- Derrick Walker (born 1945), British auto racing team owner
- Derrick Walker (American football) (born 1967), retired NFL player
- Derrick Ward (born 1980), NFL player
- Derrick Williams (American football) (born 1986), NFL player
- Derrick Williams (basketball) (born 1991), American basketball player
Surname:
- Chris Derrick, American collegiate distance runner
- Christopher Derrick (1921–2007), English Catholic writer
- Edward Holbrook Derrick (1898–1976), Australian pathologist
- Kimberly Derrick (born 1985), American short track speed skater
- Thomas Derrick, English executioner, for whom the derrick device is named
- Tom Derrick (1914–1945), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
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.