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BACKHOE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does backhoe mean?
• BACKHOE (noun)
The noun BACKHOE has 1 sense:
1. an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth
Familiarity information: BACKHOE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("backhoe" is a kind of...):
digger; excavator; power shovel; shovel (a machine for excavating)
Meronyms (parts of "backhoe"):
scoop; scoop shovel (the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe)
Context examples
"You wouldn't need a backhoe to dig up this ice. You could use a shovel," said the paper's lead author, Sylvain Piqueux of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)
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