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
With one power shovel, said John, he could cut a new road in two weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was fifty feet square and twenty feet deep, and still going deeper, with a power shovel in it and a couple of dump scows beside.
From Little Fuzzy by Piper, H. Beam
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