derricks in English

noun
1
a kind of crane with a movable pivoted arm for moving or lifting heavy weights, especially on a ship.
The derrick cranes being used for erection were then moved forward to the next segment and the cycle was repeated.
2
the framework over an oil well or similar boring that holds the drilling machinery.
Soon drilling derricks , pipelines and roads carved up the region, and oil spills polluted lakes and rivers.

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1. Hoists, Aerial Tramways and Derricks

2. Guy named Trevor Derricks he's a kickboxer.

3. Derricks; cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane

4. Hereby the use of large derricks can be avoided which provides a substantial cost reduction.

5. Derricks, steering gear, generators, spreader beams, automatic machines for the manufacture of goods and materials

6. 28.22.14 | Derricks; cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane | 43520 |

7. CPA #.#.#: Derricks; cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane

8. Two ships constructed in 1943, the USS Stevens and the USS Halford, had redesigned derricks.

9. Ships’ derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane:

10. CPA 28.22.14: Derricks; cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane

11. There is a man, a certain Colonel Derricks who has the power to grant us a contract.

12. Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane:

13. Ships’ derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane.

14. Ships’ derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane

15. Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane.

16. • For derricks, the department will accept, at a minimum, a lAttice boom truck or crawler mobile crane operator's certificate

17. asts for supporting derricks shall be made of standardized material or materials approved by a recognized Classification Society

18. Initially, the derricks were made of wood, however in successive developments - also with a contribution from Giacomini O.M.

19. Masts for supporting derricks shall be made of standardized material or materials approved by a recognized Classification Society.

20. Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane

21. Boomtowns sprang up and derricks rose leg-to-leg on any patch of Texas landscape where oil looked possible

22. Oil well drilling machinery: oilfield drilling rig equipment, namely, crown blocks, traveling blocks, deadline anchors, masts, derricks, substructures, skid bases, draw works, mobile rigs, rig carriers, rig trailers, top drives, rig skidding hydraulic jacks, controls and clamps

23. Huge ships of weird design were Crisscrossing the air above, obviously looking for something.: The great steel derricks and their Crisscrossing cables cast curiously foreshortened shadows on the gleaming white expanse.: Something was crossing and Crisscrossing inside him like two rings tossed

24. Massive inflation having set in, this was followed by an issue of the Federation's own designs, four values of a view of oil fields, and four with a montage of Soviet symbols over mountains and oil derricks, values ranging from 40,000 to 500,000 rubles.