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A towering metal skeleton that named itself after a hangman.
means A tall framework or hoisting apparatus used to lift heavy loads, most famously the lattice tower standing over an oil well.
from Named for Derick, a hangman at London's Tyburn gallows around 1600, whose name became slang for the gallows itself — and then, by grim extension, for any tall lifting structure with a beam and ropes. From the gallows-frame to the cargo-crane to the oil-rig tower, the word climbed steadily upward while keeping its hangman's bones. The name Derick is itself a Dutch form of Theodoric, 'ruler of the people.'
- grim origin
- Named for Thomas Derrick, a 16th-century London executioner
- job description
- Lifts and lowers loads via fixed support and tackle
- oil giant
- The iconic tower above every drilling rig
- hanged 3000
- Derrick reportedly executed over three thousand people
- crane cousin
- Differs from cranes by having a stationary mast
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