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- noun Plural form of
derrick .
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Examples
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In some parts of Devonshire the pixies are called "derricks," evidently the A. - S. "doeorg."
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He saw nothing on the horizon but the distant lights of the offshore oil derricks.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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I would call putting people to work on derricks a green job as we would less rely on bombing people into submission for resources.
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Only the steel skeletons of the drilling derricks and cranes were higher.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Only the steel skeletons of the drilling derricks and cranes were higher.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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The Caspian Sea was still, its gray surface broken only by oil derricks and channel buoys.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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Only the steel skeletons of the drilling derricks and cranes were higher.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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But sure enough, in a well-lit clearing at the tail end of a dusty trail of pumping derricks, the cameras are rolling on a night scene that finds stars Geoff Stults, Michael Clarke Duncan and Mercedes Masöhn throwing back beers after wrapping their characters' case of the week.
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David closed his own eyes and remembered seeing Lucille on the deck of the fishing trawler, pointing her Glock at one of the oil derricks in the Caspian Sea.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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That is a liberal lie about “destroying” the environment by erecting derricks.
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