Steam Shovel

Definition: Steam Shovel

Steam Shovel

Noun

1. A power shovel that is driven by steam.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Steam Shovel

I had my swimming pool dug by an International Projects steam shovel. It's a darling shovel (The Solid Gold Cadillac; writing credit: Abe Burrows; George S. Kaufman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (reference)

• The Brave Little Steam Shovel (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Original Station Winton North Base Mark displaced by steam shovel Triangulation party of E. O. Heaton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Black and white photo of workers posing on a steam shovel. Credit: Unknown.

Caption: Railway: Train with Steam Shovel in Quarry; New Village, NJ; Unknown Date; {10.220/45} (jpg).

Caption: New Jersey & Pennsylvania Concentrating Works, Steam Shovel in Front of Factory Building; Toledo, OH; Ca. 1895; {26.111/66} (jpg).

New Mexico, Santa Rita (vicinity)--Heavy machinery in action, steam shovel copper mining. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steam shovel removing a section of coffer dam, Livingstone Channel, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steam shovel & corner of excavated area, Livingstone Channel, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steam shovel at the Hightstown, New Jersey, project. Credit: Library of Congress.

Strip mining operations with a thirty-two cubic yard steam shovel. Cherokee County, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

New Jersey Turnpike. Raritan Bridge from top of steam shovel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Danish

dampdrevet gravemaskine (steam digger). (various references)

Dutch

stoomgraafmachine (steam digger). (various references)

Finnish

höyrylapio (steam digger), höyrykaivuri (steam digger). (various references)

French

pelle � vapeur (steam digger). (various references)

German

Dampfbagger (steam digger). (various references)

Greek 

ατμοκίνητος εκσκαφέας (steam digger). (various references)

Hungarian

gőzüzemű kanalas kotrógép (steam-shovel), gőzüzemű kanalas ásógép (steam-shovel). (various references)

Manx

gaal-sleayst. (various references)

Pig Latin

eamstay ovelshay.(various references)

Portuguese

escavadora a vapor (steam digger). (various references)

Russian 

экскаватор (digger, excavator, navvy, power shovel, power-shovel), паровой экскаватор. (various references)

Spanish

excavadora a vapor (steam digger). (various references)

Swedish

ångdriven grävmaskin (steam digger). (various references)

Vietnamese 

máy xúc (excavator, power-shovel, steam navvy), máy đ� o (steam navvy). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: loveseats.

-3 letters: heatless, homeless, loveseat, maltoses, mateless, meatless, moveless, shoalest, solvates, tameless, voteless.

-4 letters: avosets, ethoses, hamlets, haslets, hatless, helmets, hostels, leashes, loathes, maltose, matless, measles, mesteso, molests, oleates, omelets, salvoes, samlets, shaloms, sheaves, sheltas, shelves, shovels, sleaves, smaltos, solates, solvate, teasels, telomes, teloses, toeless, vamoses, vestals.

-5 letters: almehs, almost, amoles, avoset, easels, elates.