BACKHOE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does backhoe mean? 

• BACKHOE (noun)
  The noun BACKHOE has 1 sense:

1. an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth

  Familiarity information: BACKHOE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACKHOE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("backhoe" is a kind of...):

digger; excavator; power shovel; shovel (a machine for excavating)

Meronyms (parts of "backhoe"):

scoop; scoop shovel (the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe)

 Context examples 

"You wouldn't need a backhoe to dig up this ice. You could use a shovel," said the paper's lead author, Sylvain Piqueux of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)