excavator

UK/ˈɛkskəˌveɪtə/US/ˈɛkskəˌveɪtɚ/

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,155 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: excavators

An excavator is a machine with a jointed arm and bucket for digging. A tracked excavator, hire an excavator, the excavator arrived.

The house is what everybody calls the rotating top, and the whole thing turns on a ring that lets it swing without moving the tracks. Britain also says digger, which is what everybody actually says.

Definitions of excavator

1nounexcavatorA machine with a jointed arm and bucket for digging.B2+
“An excavator dug a deep trench for the new water pipes.”

excavator is a machine.

Where it comes from

From excavate + -or.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Vehicles & Machines

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excavator in the wild

A dragline excavator is a heavy-duty excavator used in civil engineering and surface mining.
Dragline excavator
A bucket-wheel excavator (BWE) is a large heavy equipment machine used in surface mining.
Bucket-wheel excavator
A compact or mini excavator is a tracked or wheeled vehicle with an approximate operating weight of up to 8.5 tonnes.
Compact excavator
At the lightest end, machines with an operating weight below one tonne are commonly called micro excavators.
Compact excavator
The 345C L, with 345 hp of net flywheel power, is classified as a large excavator by Caterpillar.
Caterpillar 345C L

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