excavator
Americannoun
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a person or thing that excavates.
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a power-driven machine for digging, moving, or transporting loose gravel, sand, or soil.
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a sharp, spoonlike instrument used for scraping out diseased tissue, as in dentistry.
noun
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a powered machine for digging earth, gravel, sand, etc, esp a caterpillar tractor so equipped
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any person, animal, or thing that excavates
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Origin of excavator
Example Sentences
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She went on to pen two prize-winning children’s books, Somebody, or Waterheart and another novel, Storie-e-es of Eka the Excavator.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2023
Excavator owners were urged to dig so the enemy couldn’t pass.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2022
Last year Excavator LeTourneau's depression-reared company turned in a record net of $1,816,471 on $7,731,325 gross sales.
From Time Magazine Archive
The day Aunt Ailsa really laughed was when Greg rigged himself up as an Excavator.
From Us and the Bottleman by Price, Edith Ballinger
There is another, called the Excavator, that bores through hills, &c. and quickens the work fiftyfold to manual labour.
From Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic by Moore, George
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