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Excavator   /ˈɛkskəvˌeɪtər/   Listen
Excavator

noun
1.
A workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying.
2.
A machine for excavating.  Synonyms: digger, power shovel, shovel.






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"Excavator" Quotes from Famous Books



... manuscript was discovered during the excavation of a lateral connecting link between the North-South streamways in Narhil Province near Issahar on Kwashior. The excavator, while passing through a small valley about 20 yursts south of the city, was jammed by a mass of oxidized and partially oxidized metallic fragments. On most worlds this would not be unusual, but Kwashior has no recorded history of metallic artifacts. The terrestrial ...
— The Issahar Artifacts • Jesse Franklin Bone

... of elevating or adjusting the plough of an excavator by the rotary motion of the forward axle, derived from the forward wheels by means of the clutches, a' a', substantially as and ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various

... to him probably that they were still down in the pond, working on the houses, the brush pile, or the dam. Presently one more was accounted for. A renewed splashing in the canal turned the attention of the watchers from the tree-cutting, and they saw that a single wise excavator was at work, carrying forward the ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts

... this wholesale and convincing fashion, the "Corks" fell to and made many purchases from Gooley, who told them that his uncle, Hajie Hassan, was a professional excavator and had lately made an important find in some graves at Thebes, and that every one of his scarabs had been taken by this uncle from the coffins. (By the way, at Thebes they dig mummies with scarabs attached about as we dig our ...
— A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel • S. G. Bayne

... as an Excavator We hoped the Bottle Man would like the letter "Hang on, Chris!" Jerry said. "I can get it" ...
— Us and the Bottleman • Edith Ballinger Price


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