1. It's a derrick drilling.

2. My father was a Derrick man.

3. An offshore oil derrick having a derrick tower (1), a derrick substructure (2), and a drilling floor (3).

4. How we gonna get a derrick down here?

5. A derrick is a team of horses that brings a load of hay in.

6. A system of ropes attached to a derrick was installed to assist these dangerous operations.

7. Think a wrench like that could loosen up a length of drill pipe from a derrick chain?

8. Because of its success, ABC has released even more books, including a Derrick Storm trilogy and Derrick Storm graphic novels.

9. Ball breaker[′bȯl ¦brāk·ər] (engineering) A steel or iron ball that is hoisted by a derrick and allowed to fall on blocks of waste stone to break them or to swing against old buildings to demolish them