excavator
excavator
Definition
ex·ca·va·tor (eks′kə vāt′ər)
noun
a person or thing that excavates; specif., a steam shovel, dredge, etc.
excavator
Usage Examples
Converse of subject
- find: What were the 140 or so little pits found by earlier excavators used for?
Converse of object
- fit: Four 45t tracked excavators fitted with grabs are being used to position the rock.
- use: We are using a long reach excavator to nibble away at the stadium structure.
- wheel: You can find out more about the performance and specifications of the ZAXIS wheeled excavators on the below website.
- track: The long reach tracked excavator was moved over from the Causeway site.
Adjective modifier
- tracked: Many hire centers will hire out the smaller tracked excavators, normally with an operator.
- mini: A mini excavator working in the jacking shield, just ahead of the first pipe, removed 290 cubic meters of spoil.
- hydraulic: When the first hydraulic excavators appeared they were relatively puny affairs with small buckets and a short reach.
- mechanical: The air tools can be used to locate gas and power lines before digging with mechanical excavators.
- original: The original excavators had considered that approximately 40 % of the graves had been robbed.
- early: Most early excavators took great care to scrub all vessels within an inch of their lives, effectively removing all traces of contents.
Modifies a noun
- arm: By using a pneumatic drill on the excavator arm the walls have been lowered in a very short time.
- operator: There are no builders, electricians, plumbers or large excavator operators on the island.
- bucket: The bucket fell from the machine tipping Mr Given out who fell to the ground with the excavator bucket falling onto his legs.
- driver: Another small island below Lock 26 was named Fred's Ait after the Hymac excavator driver, Fred Hill, who dredged the flight.
Noun used with modifier
- ton: Standing on the half-built bridge is the 43 ton excavator - this is to test the bridge!
- land: One of the three German land excavators was landed in sections at Ince, and was then constructed on Frodsham Score.
- reach: A long reach excavator has been mobilized from the mainland via barge on 23rd July.
- degree: Struck by the loader bucket if the access platform is within the working radius of the loading machine ( for 360 degree excavators ).
- 1960s: The 1960s excavator Hugh Thompson admitted that the techniques used then were ' brutal ' .
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