steam shovel

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   a power shovel that is driven by steam

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Questions about steam shovel

What does steam shovel mean?

steam shovel means "a power shovel that is driven by steam".

Is steam shovel a common word?

steam 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.