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dragline excavators

dragline excavators is the plural of dragline excavator.

Meaning of dragline excavator

Noun

dragline excavator (plural dragline excavators)

  1. Any of several very large vehicles used for lifting, especially in the process of mining: basically an excavator which drags its bucket to fill it.
    • In mining with a dragline excavator, the upper half to two-thirds of the alluvium contains too little of the previous metals to warrant washing; hence this part of the overburden is lifted by the excavator and dumped to one side of the cut.1940, J. B. Mertie, Jr., “Economic Geology”, in The Goodnews Platinum Deposits, Alaska (United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Bulletin; no. 918), Washington, D.C.: Government...
    Synonyms:
    dragline

Questions about dragline excavators

What is dragline excavators the plural of?
Dragline excavators is the plural of dragline excavator.

Words near dragline excavators in the dictionary

  1. draglessness
  2. draglift
  3. draglifts
  4. dragline
  5. dragline excavator
  6. dragline excavators
  7. draglines
  8. dragling
  9. draglings
  10. draglink
  11. draglinks

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