earth mover
Heavy digging equipment
An earth mover is heavy equipment designed to move large quantities of soil, rock, or debris—bulldozers, excavators, backhoes, and the like.
The term covers any machine that reshapes terrain for construction, mining, or landscaping: The earth movers arrived at dawn to begin clearing the site.
Also spelled as one word: earthmover.
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
- excavatorMachine that digs earth
- backhoeHinged-arm excavating machine
- diggerOne who unearths
- front loaderBucket-equipped earthmoving vehicle
dump truck · caterpillar · loader · heavy machinery · grader · trencher · scraper · heavy equipment · big rig · construction · construction site · hard hat · breaking ground · dirt · soil · diesel · hydraulic · bucket
- military engineeringengineers, combat engineer, combat engineers, sappers, sapper
earth moverspade
Flat-bladed digging implement
teaspoon · tablespoon · bare hands · hand tools · manual labor
earth movernature preserve
Protected natural habitat area
wilderness area · protected land · natural landscape · restoration project · rewilding
earth, mover, earthy, earthen, earthly, unearthly, earthward, earthbound, earths