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A derrick is a tall metal framework or crane used to lift heavy things - most often seen over an oil well, holding the drilling equipment, or used at building sites and ports to lift heavy loads. Interestingly, this common noun actually comes from a person's name: a famous English executioner in the 1600s was called Derrick, and his execution device had a similar tall, angled shape. Because of that history, "Derrick" is also used today as a person's first name, separate from the machine.
（起重機、鑽油）井架
組成Comes from the name of a 17th-century English executioner called Derrick, whose execution device resembled this shape.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Derrickname/ˈdɛɹɪk/
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A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek.
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A surname.
derricknoun/ˈdɛɹɪk/
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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?”
- At some places it is possible to load or discharge a vessel without any expenditure on docks or wharves, by dealing with the cargo by hand, or by the ships derricks, or by means of floating discharging appliances while the vessel it moored to buoys in a tideway. […] At low tide it may be impracticable to use a ship's derricks [at a berth].
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A framework that is constructed over a mine or oil well for the purpose of boring or lowering pipes.
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obsoleteAn executioner responsible for hanging convicts; a hangman.
derrickverb/ˈdɛɹɪk/
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To hoist with, or as if with, a derrick.
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informalball-gamesbaseballgamesTo remove (a pitcher).
- Stinky, who had batted a bit over .200 with scant power (two home runs in 66 games in 1933), was being derricked by Navin.
- As a rule, when the twirler is derricked, it is because the members of the opposition are beginning to take undue familiarity with his offerings. But this is not always the reason.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。