power shovel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of power shovel
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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Video previously released by police showed dozens of searchers wearing rubber boots and protective clothing and face masks using long-tined rakes to examine material excavated from the landfill by a power shovel.
From Washington Times • Dec. 18, 2017
He absorbed knowledge from a broad range of fields with the efficiency of a power shovel scooping earth.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2011
Where other sidewalk superintendents see only the ponderous antics of the power shovel, Beebe mentally catalogues the two-billion-year-old rocks of a new skyscraper's foundation.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the middle of a gloomy, unheated factory building in Yokohama, a group of Japanese and American businessmen solemnly lined up last week behind a white-robed Shinto priest and faced a bright orange-colored power shovel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dave Questell's construction crew began at once on the water tank, using a power shovel to dig the foundation.
From Naudsonce by Piper, H. Beam
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