What is "excavator"

Usage examples of "excavator".

Along with other floral material the excavators found masticated leaves of the boldo plant, which currently is used by local residents to brew a tea believed to have medicinal value.

Any dog dreadful enough to have outdone his fellow couch destroyers, ankle nippers, rug soilers, lawn excavators, garbage stealers, and leash lungers to the extent of requiring three local consultations and the Monks of New Skete?

GREAT BOOK, tile Seventy-first on LOVE, wherein nothing is written, but the Reader receives a Lanthorn, a Powder-cask and a Pick-axe, and therewith pursues his yellow-dusking path across the rubble of preceding excavators in the solitary quarry: a yet more instructive passage than the overscrawled Seventieth, or French Section, whence the chapter opens, and where hitherto the polite world has halted.

She resorbed the handgrips and reformed the cube, tucked the excavator into its case and clicked the lid home.

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.

Alba is tunneling headfirst into me, a bone and flesh excavator of my flesh and bone, a deepener of my depths.

Monastic excavators, alert for ancient treasures, had been known to emerge from a hole in the ground, triumphantly carrying a strange cylindrical artifact, and thenwhile cleaning it or trying to ascertain its purposepress the wrong button or twist the wrong knob, thereby ending the matter without benefit of clergy.

It is insulting to us—us, the finest excavators in the profession—allowed only to clear tombs other archaeologists have abandoned as unworthy of interest.

It is under such piles of man-made debris that excavators hope to find forgotten tomb entrances.

Many excavators do not pause for breakfast until after they have been at work for several hours.

Emerson is one of the few excavators in the business who derives as much pleasure from the humble minutiae of archaeology as from impressive temples and rich tombs.

Lacking coal, the French had fueled their giant excavators with bitumen-soaked mummies, stacked like cordwood and sold by the ton.

This generated an additional delay while the excavator was located, loaded on a low-boy flatbed truck, and driven out from town.

As he had made his way on foot, past enormous, scavenger-ready drill units, gross tonnage excavators, up-ended conveyor lines, and surrounding slag heaps, then into the midst of the shabby plastoid buildings that had become by default the planet's only inhabited zone, it had struck him that even the dirt and rocks here were of an inferior quality.

The excavator was as self-contained as any ship at sea, everything stored, each cupboard and drawer secured against sudden jolts, but here the purpose of the craft was nakedly displayed, the massive rock drills lain neatly in their racks.