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excavator

[eks-kuh-vey-ter] / ˈɛks kəˌveɪ tər /
NOUN
earthmover
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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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