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Definition of Dragline
1. Noun. Any of several very large vehicles used for lifting in the process of mining. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dragline
1. a line used for dragging [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dragline
Literary usage of Dragline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"dragline Excavators for Railway Grading. Engineering and Contracting, June 4,
1913, gives the following: In double track construction, on the Chicago, ..."
2. Manual of the American Railway Engineering Association by American Railway Engineering Association (1921)
"'MECHANICAL SHOVELS; LOCOMOTIVE CRANES AND dragline EXCAVATORS; SHOVEL METHODS
AND OPERATIONS. In the following matter, too detailed specifications are ..."
3. Handbook of Construction Equipment: Its Cost and Use by Richard Turner Dana (1921)
"The dragline Backfilling Machine. The wheel type without traction is made in the
smaller sizes. It is designed to be drawn Fig. 19. ..."
4. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"Tbe dragline.— Most spiders as they move from place to place spin a thread, which
marks their course; this thread has been termed the dragline. ..."
5. Excavation by Allen Boyer McDaniel (1919)
"Electrically Driven dragline Scrapers Dig 45 Mile Irrigation Canal. ... Method and
Cost of Operating the Weeks Two-line Shovel for dragline Excavators, ..."
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