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Definition of Excavates
1. excavate [v] - See also: excavate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excavates
Literary usage of Excavates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Torts: Or the Wrongs which Arise Independently of by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, John Lewis (1907)
"... deposit is the question of liability one depending on degrees of care to
prevent it.5* So if one excavates his land and lets in the sea which percolates ..."
2. Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans: the Results of Researches and by Heinrich Schliemann (1880)
"... excavates the tumulus above Ken Kioi, 655. Camel, Bactrian, in the Troad ; on
black obelisk of Shalmaneser III.; anciently strange in Asia Minor, ..."
3. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1841)
"IU order that he may be covered on his flank: then kneeling behind the gabion,
he excavates a portion of a trench, is inches wide, and as many in depth, ..."
4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"A. niger nests in thickets between the roots, where it excavates its nest at some
distance from the entrance. It does not confine its cutting operations ..."
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