excavating machine

noun

noun

Any machine, usually self-powered and self-propelled, used for digging out material, such as earth, from the surface of the ground.

No borrow pit excavation was necessary, and 41,000 cu. yd. were removed from cuttings by excavating machines.1944 November and December, “Increasing G.W.R. Line Capacity”, in Railway Magazine, page 367:

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