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Definition of Excavating
1. excavate [v] - See also: excavate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excavating
Literary usage of Excavating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"See Physical examinations excavating machinery Drag-line machine for nitrate.
... 11 Sci Am S 79:156-8 Mr 6 '15 See also Earthwork; excavating machinery ..."
2. Tunneling: A Practical Treatise by Charles Prelini (1912)
"Earth-excavating Machines—Comparatively few of the labor- saving machines ...
Several forms of tunnel excavating machines have been tried at various times, ..."
3. Tunneling: A Practical Treatise by Charles Prelini (1912)
"Earth-excavating Machines—Comparatively few of the labor- saving machines ...
Several forms of tunnel excavating machines have been tried at various times, ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1849)
"Observations on Mr. Hancock's paper on the excavating Sponges. By JOHN MORRIS,
FGS IN the interesting communication " On the excavating powers of certain ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Easements: In Continuation of the Author's Treatise by Leonard Augustus Jones (1898)
"Care and Skill in excavating. 610. In the exercise of proper care a party excavating
near a building on land of another is required to give notice to the ..."
6. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1905)
"excavating THE RAW MATERIALS. THE excavation of the raw materials is the first
step toward the actual manufacture of Portland cement, and the one concerning ..."
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