Derrick dropped his drawing in the tub and is now trying to salvage it with a hair dryer.
Source: tatoeba (817018)
Derrick
//ˈdɛɹɪk//
Synonyms for "derrick" (55 found)
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43 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- кран noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- поде́мник noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- сонда́жна ку́ла noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
Catalan
1 entries- puntal noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 起重機 /起重机 noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- 鑽井架 /钻井架 noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
- 鑽塔 /钻塔 noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
Czech
1 entries- vrtná rěž noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
Danish
4 entries- boretårn noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
- ladebom noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- lossebom noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- svingbom noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
Finnish
2 entries- nostokurki noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- öljynporaustorni noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
German
4 entries- Bohrturm noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
- Derrickkran noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- Drehkran noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- Kranbaum noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
Latin
1 entries- tollēnō noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- borerigg noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
- boretårn noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ماچونه noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
Polish
2 entries- bom noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- wieża wiertnicza noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
Portuguese
1 entries- torre de perfuração noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
Russian
4 entries- бурова́я вы́шка noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
- вы́шка noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
- кран noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- подъёмная стрела́ noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
Spanish
4 entries- cabria noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- machina noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
- torre penetracional noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
- torre petrolera noun (framework constructed over a mine or oil well)
Tagalog
1 entries- bintag noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
Turkish
1 entries- maçuna noun (device used for lifting and moving large objects)
Sample sentences
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They count their ships full tale— / Their corn and oil and wine, / Derrick and loom and bale, / And rampart’s gun-flecked line; / City by City they hail: / “Hast aught to match with mine?”
Source: wiktionary
At some places it is possible to load or discharge a vessel without any expenditure on docks or wharves, by dealing with the cargo by hand, or by the ships derricks, or by means of floating discharging appliances while the vessel it moored to buoys in a tideway. […] At low tide it may be impracticable to use a ship's derricks [at a berth].
Source: wiktionary
Stinky, who had batted a bit over .200 with scant power (two home runs in 66 games in 1933), was being derricked by Navin.
Source: wiktionary
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