power shovel

What does power shovel mean?

power shovel means "a machine for excavating".

What is another word for power shovel?

Close synonyms include excavator, digger, shovel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is power shovel a common word?

power shovel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for power shovel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.