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- noun a member of a
oil drilling rig who works on aderrick suspended above the rig floor,manhandling the drillpipe
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Examples
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The gang worked consisted of 1 foreman, 1 derrickman and 18 common laborers.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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I worked on a drilling rig and derrick for 6 years - three years as a roughneck -- and was promoted three years as a derrickman - assistant driller.
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Trace Adkins may be best known for his cowboy-style country music crooning, but in his first in-depth interview about the BP oil spill, this former oil rig roughneck and derrickman reveals he's unhappy with BP's "company man" mentality and the media's portrayal of his former profession.
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Read through and enter the discussion with the form at the end Lawsuit filed against Hercules Offshore for derrickman who was badly injured Lawsuit filed against Cal-Dive on behalf of injured maritime worker Lawsuit filed on behalf of injured worker against ENSCO International Lawsuit filed against Global Industries Offshore on behalf of injured worker
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Read through and enter the discussion with the form at the end Lawsuit filed against Hercules Offshore for derrickman who was badly injured Lawsuit filed against Cal-Dive on behalf of injured maritime worker Lawsuit filed on behalf of injured worker against ENSCO International Lawsuit filed against Global Industries Offshore on behalf of injured worker
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A derrickman trying to latch a drill pipe, hung unto the elevator when his safety line snap
Metacafe - Today's Videos by Metacafe jakpan2004 2008
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Unit: Glomar Java Sea, assistant derrickman, Global Marine Drilling
McCurry, Robert M. 1990
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But my father, who had been a fisherman, trapper, and derrickman all his life, and who couldn’t read or write and spoke Cajun French and a form of English that was hardly a language, had an axiom for almost every situation.
Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988
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But my father, who had been a fisherman, trapper, and derrickman all his life, and who couldn’t read or write and spoke Cajun French and a form of English that was hardly a language, had an axiom for almost every situation.
Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988
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But my father, who had been a fisherman, trapper, and derrickman all his life, and who couldn’t read or write and spoke Cajun French and a form of English that was hardly a language, had an axiom for almost every situation.
Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988
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