rétrocaveuse — meaning in English
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English meaning
- backhoe noun A piece of excavating machinery with a digging bucket on a hinged arm, mounted on a tractor.
Senses
rétrocaveuse is used for these senses in English:
- backhoe A piece of excavating equipment, either an integral subassembly or an attachment, 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 (chiefly, US, Canada, Australia) Ellipsis of backhoe loader: A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component).
backhoe — full definition
- noun A piece of excavating machinery with a digging bucket on a hinged arm, mounted on a tractor.
- verb To dig using a backhoe.