Meanings
nounmechanical shovel (plural mechanical shovels)
plural mechanical shovels
- A type of excavator.
A bulldozer and a mechanical shovel had prepared a path up the embankment at a slope of 1 in 13, […].
1952 October, “Notes and News: Derailment near Shawford”, in Railway Magazine, page 710
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