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View definitions for backhoe

backhoe

noun as in earthmover

noun as in excavator

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We passed by a checkpoint manned by the National Guard and the LAPD, then had to stop for 20 minutes on a narrow hillside road as a backhoe was unloaded from a flatbed truck.

On a recent Sunday, huge tractors, backhoes and trucks blazed down a two-lane country highway, blaring their horns on their way to a “Farmers for Trump” rally near Hilmar.

A few days later, detectives found the stolen backhoe at a truck stop in Tulare.

Wiggins, though, declined to estimate when water would be flowing again, even as backhoes continued digging in a hole behind him.

Cranes and backhoes were brought in to stabilize the parts of the building left standing.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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