Word Meanings - EXCAVATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

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• DREDGE
  Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond. (more info) 1. Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. A dredging machine. An iron frame, with a fine net
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• EXCAVATE
  To dig out and remove, as earth. The material excavated was usually sand. E. L. Corthell. Excavating pump, a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.
• DREDGER
  1. One who fishes with a dredge. 2. A dredging machine.
• EXCAVATION
  1. The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass. 2. A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. "A winding excavation." Glover. An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from
• MACHINE
  1. In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a
• EXCAVATOR
  One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.
• MACHINERY
  1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.
• VICKERS-MAXIM AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN
  An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear
• SLOT MACHINE
  A machine the operation of which is started by dropping a coin into a slot, for delivering small articles of merchandise, showing one's weight, exhibiting pictures, throwing dice, etc.