(1) A workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying.
(2) A machine for excavating.
(3) Earthmover.
(1) Many excavator manufacturers consider any machine weighing less than about 8 tons to be a compact.
(2) Kobelco offers the Blade Runner, which is a combination excavator and dozer.
(3) The material found in front of the palisade fence, in the ditches, and within the interior suggested to the excavator that the site was used for ritual, ceremonial, and funerary purposes by a fairly large group of people.
(4) Well he had gone to Oxford and studied classical archaeology when people like Arthur Evans the famous excavator of Crete was there, it must have been an exciting time.
(5) Installation at another site with an excavator and bulldozer working as a team took the same amount of time.
(6) As Mortimer Wheeler put it 50 years ago, u2018the archaeological excavator is not digging up things, he is digging up peopleu2019.
(7) When the operator can see all around, he knows where he can swing the excavator 's boom, reverse the dozer, or turn the grader.
(8) When the dig was over it was generally the personal responsibility of the excavator , with little assistance, to sort out all the material and write it up for publication.
(9) The bird had a little trough of seed from which it kept on scooping up mechanical mouthfuls like an excavator scoops up earth.
(10) Brian was a brilliant excavator - I remember attending a lecture he gave on his excavations at Dunbar, and thinking I ought just to throw my trowel away.
(11) Rather than bringing in a larger piece of equipment, an operator may overload a smaller excavator , lifting rocks heavier than what the equipment normally handles.
(12) He built a workshop, developed an excavator with an earth scoop and built a dam to supply water for a hydro electric plant to supply power for domestic use and for his engineering projects.
(13) These were demonstrably built in two phases, one Augustan and the other Severan, since they are very different in style and construction: the excavator estimated that the original structure had places for at most six hundred people.
(14) Because he can do more work from one position, the excavator operator moves his machine less.
(15) When these situations occur, conventional methods of mechanical shield machines or excavator machines are used.
(16) The excavator 's pump system is the source of the oil, and it is routed to the attachment via tubelines and hoses on the workgroup.
(17) The other is mounted on a rover, such as a dozer, a motor grader, or an excavator .
(18) The total number of burials estimated for both sites is based on the excavator 's descriptions and the number of skeletal remains he reported.
(19) He works in a crew that has three bulldozers, a large excavator , and two or more off-road haul trucks.
(20) Some of us joined the team as excavators , providing the fantastic opportunity to be makers and watchers.
(21) None of these sites has been fully published, but one sometimes senses from the interim reports that the excavators are nervous of making too much of their structures because they do not fit the prevailing view.
(22) Most of us do not perceive trucks the same way as excavators , loaders, and dozers.
(23) According to Colin Palmer-Brown of excavators Preconstruct Archaeology, all the gift offerings in the river seem to have been deliberately broken in an act of ritual destruction before being thrown into the river.
(24) The inscription, found by excavators from Pre-Construct Archaeology on a possible temple site in Southwark, is one of the earliest pieces of physical evidence for the name of London.
(25) So deeply impressed on the European mind was the Biblical image of the world that the first excavators of ancient sites in this region were looking for confirmation of the Bible.
(26) Two 30-tonne and one 20-tonne earth excavators and a mini-dump truck were among the machines targeted some time after 9pm on Tuesday night and yesterday morning.
(27) Earth movers, excavators , backhoes, and bulldozers rely on hydraulic fluids to lift, move, scrape, and dig.
(28) The equipment replaced consisted of, for example, rough-terrain forklifts, midpowered dozers and excavators , manlifts, scissors lifts, and more.
(29) In one pit inside the enclosure, excavators found an adult's skull and a fragment of a long bone that had been cremated in situ within the pit.
(30) The excavators interpret the site as having functioned in a Cahokia-centric trading network.
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