derrick是什么意思（derrick的用法）

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一、derrick是什么意思

1、derrick 转臂超重机，钻塔

2、来自17世纪初期伦敦泰伯恩刑场执行绞刑的刽子手姓氏Derrick，后通用化作为绞刑架的代称，现词义转臂起重机因形似绞刑架而得名。比较guillotine.

二、derrick的用法

1、derrick

2、derrick: [16] Around the end of the 16th century there was a famous Tyburn hangman called Derick. His name came to be used as a personification of hangmen in general, and subsequently as a metaphor for the ‘gallows’. Gradually, however, these macabre associations were lost, and by the 18th century derrick had progressed in meaning to ‘hoisting apparatus’.

3、derrick (n.)

4、c. 1600, originally "hangman," then "a gallows," then "hoist, crane" (1727), from surname of a hangman at Tyburn gallows, London, c. 1606-1608, often referred to in contemporary theater. The name represents a late borrowing from the Low Countries (compare Dutch Diederik) of Old High German Theodric (see Dietrich).

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