Lexicographical Neighbors of Derricked
Literary usage of Derricked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Breeding and Developing the Trotter by John Bradburn (1906)
""derricked."—Back to Buffalo.— Superintendent at Village Farm. — A Betting System.
— Village Farm Graduates. — Ideal Stock Farm. " WHO IS HE ? ..."
2. Henley's Encyclopædia of Practical Engineering and Allied Trades: A by Joseph Gregory Horner (1906)
"... but a Derrick Crane has the two gears coupled together ; by this latter
arrangement the hoisting chain is payed out when the jib is derricked in, ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1883)
"... are " monstrosities," and that books by American authors are not good, he
makes out a sad case against this oil-derricked and elevated-railroaded land. ..."
4. From Harrison to Harding: A Personal Narrative, Covering a Third of a by Arthur Wallace Dunn (1922)
"Henry D. Flood was derricked from the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee and
made Chairman of Territories, in order to make a place for Sulzer, ..."
5. Educational Review by Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew, Charles Alexander Nelson (1898)
"When Thomas wished to say that a stone was hoisted by a derrick he said it was
derricked. Annie was impatient because her mother had refused to let her go ..."
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