earthmover

American  

[urth-moo-ver] / ˈɜrθˌmu vər /

noun

1. a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.

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Etymology

Origin of earthmover

First recorded in 1940–45; earth + mover

Example Sentences

When he bought Raymath in 2019, this maker of food-grade machines, earthmover parts, data-center server cabinets and more was nearly four decades old and had almost no automation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Several Indigenous leaders and activists watched as a single earthmover tore into the top of Iron Gate Dam, starting a pivotal phase in the largest dam removal project in U.S. history.

From Los Angeles Times

With the rain from Tropical Storm Hilary making the roads inaccessible, Cathedral City firefighters use an earthmover to rescue residents of a senior living facility.

From Los Angeles Times

After Parsifal destroys the garden, the third act is set in a lonely desert encampment, alongside a machine on the blurry line between war and industry: maybe an earthmover, maybe a tank.

From New York Times

Strolling not far from an orange Hitachi earthmover and towering crane, Joe Pozza, president of Hitachi Rail North America, said he hopes the nation’s surge of transit funding under last year’s federal infrastructure bill will help to keep the Washington County site busy far into the future.

From Washington Post