excavator

Nearby, a yellow Caterpillar excavator sits idle next to an opening that once led into a cross-border tunnel.

One interesting case study is Sir Arthur Evans, the original excavator and “restorer” of the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete.

If they are Ancients and dead then let them be buried and left to the archæological excavator.

He must have been an erudite excavator, but, in literature, a reader only of recent minor poetry.

That is, he said he was an excavator, but I never saw anything before that looked at all like him.

The Red Ant (Myrmica rubra) plies, according to circumstances, the trade of a mason or excavator.

The steam shovel, or steam excavator, is a modified form of dredge adapted for excavating material on dry land.