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A power shovel (also stripping shovel or front shovel or electric mining shovel) is a bucket-equipped machine, usually electrically powered, used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction.
Usage examples of "power shovel".
And at the other end of the bridge, coming toward them, was the great hulking mass of a lowboy trailer carrying a fifty-ton power shovel.
As the head went on up like the business end of a big power shovel, I fired a shot at the heart.
On the edge of the pit sat a backhoe, the power shovel resting on the ground like a curled finger.
The suit arrived at the end of the cable holding out a set of jointed toothy jaws like scrapers on a power shovel.
Crouching for an instant, he levered the Konzak's muzzle under two men with knives and fired, throwing the bodies aside like a power shovel.
His mouth dropped open like a power shovel getting ready to take a bite out of a hillside.