backhoe
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English
A backhoe (#1)
A backhoe (#2)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
backhoe (plural backhoes)
- 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.
- Coordinate term: front-end loader
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) 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).
- Synonym: digger
- Hypernym: heavy equipment
- Meronym: front-end loader
- Coordinate terms: trackhoe; front-end loader; bulldozer, grader
- 1967 June, Charles E. Rhine, “How to Rent a Backhoe”, in Popular Science, page 149:
- The backhoe is only one type of heavy equipment for rent. […] I heard about a couple of tool-rental outfits near Chicago that were doing a brisk business renting backhoes and other heavy equipment to homeowners
- 2010, Robert Day, Foundation Engineering Handbook, 2nd edition, page 2.49,
- Backhoe pits and trenches are an economical means of performing subsurface exploration. The backhoe can quickly excavate the trench that can then be used to observe and test the in situ soil (see Fig. 2.29).
Synonyms
- (multi-purpose): backhoe loader, loader excavator, backhoe endloader
Derived terms
Translations
a piece of excavating equipment
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a multi-purpose tractor
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See also
Verb
backhoe (third-person singular simple present backhoes, present participle backhoeing, simple past and past participle backhoed)
- To excavate using such equipment.
Further reading
Category:Backhoe loaders on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - “backhoe”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “backhoe”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “backhoe”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “backhoe”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
