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Meanings of derrick in inglês

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Usage of derrick in inglês
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Security guards discovered them clinging to an oil derrick in the water.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
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Proceeding on the plan of the derrick stand, as shown in Fig.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
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With a simple derrick and ropes and pulleys, dismembering the frame commences.
If You're Going to Live in the Country
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A derrick at work in that wreck yesterday fell on a working-man.
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia
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He gave a whoop at sight of the wrecked derrick and engine.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
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A derrick was being spun along the cableway, just above the excavation.
Still Jim
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Switch engines shunted rows of flats almost between the straddling derrick legs.
Flowing Gold
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The man at the derrick said Hank's buried in Quraim Wadi Samil.
Accidentally the sheikh's wife
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Near at hand was the framework of a boring machine, or derrick.
On a Torn-Away World; Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake
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He might at least have provided a derrick for victualling his stronghold.
Idolatry: A Romance
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One just missed her and whipped around one of the derrick's stanchions.
Anvil Gate
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First comes the derrick, sixty feet high, crowned by a massive pulley.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883
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An ordinary square frame derrick costs, with mud sill, from 22 dols.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
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Then he ran past the derrick to the dark side of the car.
The Desert of Wheat
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Although I have felt there might be some clue in the old derrick.
Jane Allen, Junior
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The artist erected a man in the front yard, that resembled a derrick.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
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