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NOUN:
  1. A machine for hoisting and moving heavy objects, consisting of a movable boom equipped with cables and pulleys and connected to the base of an upright stationary beam.
  2. A tall framework over a drilled hole, especially an oil well, used to support boring equipment or hoist and lower lengths of pipe.
ETYMOLOGY:
Obsolete derick, hangman, gallows, after Derick , 16th-century English hangman


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