excavator

Meaning

1. A person who excavates.
2. A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.
3. A curette used to scrape out pathological material.

Synonyms

digger

power shovel

navvy

shovel

navvy

excavating machine

miner

dredger

pioneer

curette

burrower

steam shovel

trencher

power-shovel

digging machine

backhoe

earth-moving machine

ground-man

exc

mud dredger

grubber

Translations

Bagger

excavador

excavateur

escavatore

excavadora

excavatrice

excavadora

Ausgräber

scavatrice

pelle mécanique

graafmachine

εκσκαφέας

pelleteuse

Aushubmaschine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛkskəˌveɪtə/

Etymology

From excavate + -or.