Excavator Definition

ĕkskə-vātər
excavators
noun
excavators
One that excavates, especially a machine used for digging having a bucket attached to a two-part boom and a rotating cab for the operator.
American Heritage
A person or thing that excavates; specif., a power shovel, dredge, etc.
Webster's New World

A person who excavates.

Wiktionary

A curette used to scrape out pathological material.

Wiktionary

A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe; digger.

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Noun

Singular:
excavator
Plural:
excavators

Excavator Sentence Examples

  • The excavator also claimed to have found the omphalos itself.

  • But two difficulties face the would-be excavator in Alexandria.

  • It remained for the more robust faith of a Schliemann to show that such scepticism was all too faint-hearted, by proving that at such sites as Tiryns, Mycenae and Hissarlik evidences of a very early period of Greek civilization awaited the spade of the excavator.

  • When, in 1880, General Pitt-Rivers obtained possession of his great-uncle's estates-practically untouched by the excavator since they had been the battleground of the West Saxons, the Romans and the Britons-he devoted himself to exploring them.

  • We are using a long reach excavator to nibble away at the stadium structure.

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