excavating machine

English

Noun

excavating machine (plural excavating machines)

1. Any machine, usually self-powered and self-propelled, used for digging out material, such as earth, from the surface of the ground.

   Synonym: excavator

   • 1944 November and December, “Increasing G.W.R. Line Capacity”, in Railway Magazine, page 367:

     No borrow pit excavation was necessary, and 41,000 cu. yd. were removed from cuttings by excavating machines.