English word senses marked with topical category "Construction vehicles"
Parent categories: Construction, Vehicles, Architecture, Engineering, Machines, Transport, Applied sciences, Art, Technology, Sciences, Culture, Society
Total 20 word senses
- French navvy (Noun) An earth-digging machine; a kind of excavator.
- backhoe (Noun) A piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth. Used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
- backhoe (Noun) A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader and an excavator/digger.
- bucketwheel (Noun) An excavator having a series of bucket-shaped scoops on a rotating wheel or belt
- cherry picker (Noun) A piece of equipment consisting of a large basket at the end of an extensible boom, often mounted on a truck body, and used by workers to reach inaccessible places such as power lines and tall trees.
- cherry picker (Noun) A cantilevered tool for installing or removing the engine block from a vehicle (also known as an engine crane or engine hoist)
- cherry picker (Noun) A person or group that picks the best for themselves; one who cherry-picks.
- cherry picker (Noun) A person or group that picks only evidence which supports an argument and ignores evidence which contradicts it; one who cherry-picks.
- crawler (Noun) A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
- digger (Noun) A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
- dragline excavator (Noun) Any of several very large vehicles used for lifting, especially in the process of mining: basically an excavator which drags its bucket to fill it.
- dump truck (Noun) A heavy truck, for carrying loose, bulk cargo, having a hinged bed that allows the contents to be unloaded onto the ground.
- excavator (Noun) A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.
- grader (Noun) A machine used in road maintenance and construction for leveling large surfaces.
- loader (Noun) A program that prepares other programs for execution.
- mini digger (Noun) a small excavator with a swivelling superstructure, usually mounted on crawler tracks.
- road roller (Noun) A heavy engineering vehicle used to compact asphalt in the construction of roads.
- steam shovel (Noun) An excavating machine designed to effect a shovelling action through steam power.
- steam shovel (Noun) Any excavating machine of similar design, no matter how powered.
- tipper (Noun) A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck or lorry.
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