derrick

• A derrick, the half of an English roof-truss, a Whipple girder, the other half of the roof-truss and another derrick, are very excellent things in thmeselves, but to string them together upon one line, thereby making a bridge, is not engineering, nor is it architecture. —  Bloggers.Pakistan
• Having no idea what a derrick was (except maybe a kid from my class with thick-rimmed glasses and acne), I pictured something out of "There Will Be Blood" with my young dad swinging from a harness above a lake of oil, the wind thrashing him against a machine that would chop off his limbs and then explode. —  The Rebel Yell
• When the whistle blew five Jim made an heroic effort and turned and looked at the derrick, again spliced into place. —  Still Jim
• So they put up a derrick, and commenced to drill right where the pig yard was, not far from the house Grandfather just sat right on the back porch and watched them do it. —  Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor
• A shrill whistle rang out as a signal, a man over at the engine pulled a lever, a chain from the derrick was lowered, and the whistle rang out again. —  Power of Mental Imagery Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency

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