earthmoving
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-der. Proto-Germanic *erþō Proto-West Germanic *erþu Old English eorþe Middle English erthe English earth Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor. Middle English moven English moving English earthmoving From earth + moving.
- derived from *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor✻
- derived from *h₁er-der✻
Definitions
Designed to move large quantities of earth or rubble for civil engineering or building…
Designed to move large quantities of earth or rubble for civil engineering or building purposes.
Of great significance.
The removal of large quantities of soil, e.g. from a construction site.
- Work was started in January, 1958 and involved considerable earth-moving, as a cutting about 25ft deep was needed to give rail access to a newly acquired site to the north of the station.
The neighborhood
- neighbormove heaven and earth
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for earthmoving. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA