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Definition of Steam shovel
1. Noun. A power shovel that is driven by steam.
Definition of Steam shovel
1. Noun. An industrial machine designed to effect a shovelling action through steam power. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steam Shovel
Literary usage of Steam shovel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"THE STEAM-SHOVEL There was an unsightly arm And a cupped hand with three crusted
fingers. The hand sank into earth and bulged with it : Then swung aloft in ..."
2. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1922)
"In many limestone and cement-rock quarries a steam-shovel is employed to load
the blasted rock into the cars, and in shale quarries this use of ..."
3. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"THE steam shovel Beneath my window in a city street A monster lairs, a creature
huge and grim And only half believed: the strength of him— Steel-strung and ..."
4. Ore Mining Methods: Comprising Descriptions of Methods of Support in by Walter Richard Crane (1917)
"Fewer laborers are required in scraper than in hand work, and in steam-shovel
than in the milling method, but more skilled labor is required in steam-shovel ..."
5. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"How to Handle a steam shovel Plant. Mr. EA Hermann's excellent monograph on ...
Side View of steam shovel. Figs. 1 and 2 show the general features of the ..."
6. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"THE steam shovel Beneath my window in a city street A monster lairs, a creature
huge and grim And only half believed: the strength of him— Steel-strung and ..."
7. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"Steam-shovel Mining of Bituminous Coal* BT HH ... (St. Louis Meeting, October,
1917) CONDITIONS FAVORABLE TO STEAM-SHOVEL MINING THE fundamental reasons ..."
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