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excavator

noun
/ˈɛkskəˌveɪtə/UK/ˈɛkskəˌveɪtɚ/US

Etymology

From excavate + -or.

  1. borrowed from excavātus
  2. suffixed as excavator — “excavate + or”

Definitions

  1. A person who excavates.

    • the excavators of an ancient Egyptian tomb

  2. A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.

  3. A curette used to scrape out pathological material.

The neighborhood

Derived

dragline excavator, excavator operator, mini excavator, spoon excavator

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at excavator. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at excavator. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at excavator

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA