Crossword-Solution: DERRICKS 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Frameworks over oil wells 1 answer
Hoisting units 1 answer
Oil field structures 1 answer
Oil-drilling needs 1 answer
Oil field sights 2 answers
Oil-well equipment 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMZEEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DERRICKS (5)

The 'spars,' and sometimes even their supporting derricks, were sent ashore, and no means left to set the boat afloat in case she got aground.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
Los Muertos's doors invariably stood open to all the Derricks' neighbours, and once in so often Magnus had a few of his intimates to dinner.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
Ahead of him, but so far off that the greater portion of its bulk was below the horizon, he could see the Derricks' home, a roof or two between the dull green of cypress and eucalyptus.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
Later on in the day, when it was almost evening, the undertaker's black wagon passed the Derricks' Home ranch on its way from Hooven's and turned into the county road towards Bonneville.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
The distant sounds of the derricks and winches came muffled through the tightly-shut window that looked as though it never had been opened.
The Blue Lagoon H. de Vere Stacpoole 1995

Quotes with DERRICKS (2)

All scornful descriptions of American landscapes with ruined tenements, automobile dumps, polluted rivers, jerry-built ranch houses, abandoned miniature golf links, cinder deserts, ugly hoardings, unsightly oil derricks, diseased elm trees, eroded farmlands, gaudy and fanciful gas stations, unclean motels, candlelit tearooms, and streams paved with beer cans, for these are not, as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization but are the temporary encampments and outpo…
John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins, eyes and ears full of marijuana, eating the god Peyote on the floor of a mudhut on the border or laying in a hotel room over the body of some suffering man or woman; rather jar my body down the road, crying by a diner in the Western sun; rather crawl on my naked belly over the tincans of Cincinnati; rather drag a rotten railroad tie to a Golgotha in the Rockies; rather, crowned with thorns …
Allen Ginsberg
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1970–2017).