Definition of "derricks" [derricks]

• Plural form of derrick. (noun)

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• "In some parts of Devonshire the pixies are called "derricks," evidently the A. - S. "doeorg.""
• "Only the steel skeletons of the drilling derricks and cranes were higher."
• "David closed his own eyes and remembered seeing Lucille on the deck of the fishing trawler, pointing her Glock at one of the oil derricks in the Caspian Sea."