Also whipsider(r)y, whipsey-derry. [app. connected with WHIP sb. 15 and DERRICK sb.] A contrivance for hoisting (esp. ore in shallow mines), consisting of a derrick with a ‘whip’ or simple pulley attached, and worked by a horse or horses. Also simply whipsy and whip and derry (WHIP sb. 15).
1865. Tregellas, Tales, 146 (E.D.D.). ‘What is a whipsiderry, sir?’ said I. ‘A whipsiderry,’ said he, ‘es a thing for rising traade, ’tes a sort of whem.’
1866. Thornbury, Greatheart, xxxiv. Two waggons, laden with … whipsidery pulleys, disjointed fragments of steam-engines, and miners’ gads and crowbars.
1866. R. P. Whitworth, Bailliere’s S. Austral. Gazetteer, 116. There are … 2 double whipseys, and several single whipseys.
1875. J. H. Collins, Metal Mining, 76. With the ‘derrick’ or ‘whipsey-derry’ the cost will be a little more than with the horse-whim.
