Crossword clues for dragline
dragline
Wiktionary
n. Any of several very large vehicles used for lifting in the process of mining.
Wikipedia
Dragline is the debut album by the American grunge band Paw. It was released on May 4, 1993 through A&M Records. While the album was not a commercial success, it is generally considered among fans and critics to be the band's best album.
The single "Jessie," released in 1993, became a minor hit. Other singles from the album included "Lolita" in 1992 and "Sleeping Bag" and "Couldn't Know" in 1993.
The songs "Jessie," "Pansy," and "The Bridge" were featured in the video game Road Rash for the Sega Saturn, Sega CD, Windows and in Road Rash 3D for the PlayStation and 3DO.
Usage examples of "dragline".
A hundred tons of high explosive would hardly dent the Rock of Gibraltar, but I could take out a dragline with two five-pound charges of wrap-around explosive placed where the boom is hinged to the machine house.
The ring is directly in the patch of Dragline One, which, as you can see and hear, is now only a few feet from you.
In the whistle of the wind and the monstrous grinding of the dragline, his voice was nothing and carried nowhere.
It was merely acting as an extension of the shoe, and would crush him before the dragline itself reached him.
The flames roared for a few seconds, then went out, and the dragline continued without faltering toward the brink.
Shore, who had supervised the construction of the dragline, working along with the contractors, Bucyrus-Erie, seemed strangely reluctant to leave the fallen giant.
Number two, somebody else set the controls of the dragline to take it over the edge.
One Mundane had the wit to chop at the dragline with a sword, severing the invisible silk.
The spider was more agile and could not be caught by sudden drops, thanks to his dragline, while Dor had the solidity of his big Mundane body and the power of his sword.
As the six watched its death throes, something came up from beneath it, with jaws as big as a dragline excavator, and sucked the gull down.
At one point, the spider eschewed a slower, more roundabout passage by securing a dragline and dropping them down a thirty-foot drop with a stomach-lurching motion.
And in the course of time that it took the spider to drop along the thread of its dragline and cautiously approach the naked form, back off, and climb up to a ceiling beam, another silhouette had entered the basement storage room.
He felt as though he were caught by a moving dragline, pulling him underwater into an airless abyss.
She rushes, evaluating her surroundings, laying a silk dragline behind her as she hurries.
So far the draglines had found a battered trunk, several trees, fishing nets, a sack of garbage weighted with bricks, part of an old cement mixer, three tires, and a sunken boat that was on the verge of complete disintegration.