derrick

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device that is used for lifting and moving large objects.
    — 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?”
  2. A framework that is constructed over a mine or oil well for the purpose of boring or lowering pipes.
  3. An executioner responsible for hanging convicts; a hangman. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To hoist with, or as if with, a derrick. transitive
  2. To remove (a pitcher). informal,transitive
    — Stinky, who had batted a bit over .200 with scant power (two home runs in 66 games in 1933), was being derricked by Navin.

词形变化

derricks plural derricks present,singular,third-person derricking participle,present derricked participle,past derricked past

词汇关系

衍生词
derrickhand derrickman Scotch derrick
相关词
crane

词源

词源 1
Named after British executioner Thomas Derrick, who invented the framework arrangement commonly known by this name to aid in the conduct of executions. First use appears c. 1600 in the publication Ballad Death Earl Essex.
词源 2
Named after British executioner Thomas Derrick, who invented the framework arrangement commonly known by this name to aid in the conduct of executions. First use appears c. 1600 in the publication Ballad Death Earl Essex.
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