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Synonyms for excavator

Grammar : Noun
Spell : eks-kuh-vey-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛks kəˌveɪ tər


Définition of excavator

  • noun earthmover
Example sentences :
  • Of course Dr. Munro nowhere suggests that any excavator is the guilty “faker.”
  • Extract from : « The Clyde Mystery » by Andrew Lang
  • These have as yet been untouched by the spade of the excavator.
  • Extract from : « Biblical Geography and History » by Charles Foster Kent
  • At one time the male, at another the female, is the excavator.
  • Extract from : « British Birds in their Haunts » by Rev. C. A. Johns
  • Intuitively that excavator's sense of his defined the direction.
  • Extract from : « The Fortieth Door » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • No doubt there is frequently new material discovered; the excavator may in a month's digging find stuff for years of speculation.
  • Extract from : « Problems in Greek history » by John Pentland Mahaffy
  • The small cavity seemed as large as a half bushel; the excavator more the size of an ax; and the sound was equally magnified.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 275 » by Various
  • That is, he said he was an excavator, but I never saw anything before that looked at all like him.
  • Extract from : « Us and the Bottleman » by Edith Ballinger Price
  • The principal barrow has recently been opened by Fauvel: few or no relics, as vases, etc. were found by the excavator.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 » by George Gordon Byron
  • The peasants laboured enthusiastically, but to the excavator's disgust the Turkish authorities forbade him to proceed.
  • Extract from : « Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria » by Lewis Spence
  • The excavation has been effected by hand, by dredging, and by the Couvreux excavator, figured as below in Engineering.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.--No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 » by Various

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