excavate
Definition: To remove by digging or scooping out
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How to Write Special Feature Articles - By Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
...To make spring water out of lake water, therefore, it is merely necessary to excavate a considerable area to the desired depth and lead into it the pipes connected with the wells from which water is to be pumped ....
Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities - By James Hayden Tufts, W Wetz, Hugo Helbing, Edward Thomas Owen, George J Tamson, A. L. Pogodin, Karl Brugmann, James Dowden Bruner, A Leskien, Wm E Bohn, William Edward Bohn, Mario Rossi, William Warner Bishop, George Rebec, Otto Knapp, Frank Gaylord Hubbard, Carl Meinhof, Frank Egbert Bryant, Rollo Ogden, Hugo Edward Eick, Fred Newton Scott, Hamilton Holt, Josephine May Burnham, Harry Gilbert Paul, Alexis Frederick Lange, John Harrower, Raymond Durbin Miller
...s. v. -RRB-, excavate, exculpate -LRB- but also exculpate, cf ....
In the Roar of the Sea - By Sabine Baring-Gould
...He had endeavored to stimulate the farmers and land-owners of the parish to excavate the buried church, but his endeavors had proved futile ....
The Mobile Boer - By Alan Richard Illeigh Hiley, John Arthur Hassell
...Sometimes the shell would fail to burst, when many volunteers craving exercise would man shovels to excavate it, the lyddite being dug out with sticks and the case shipped to relatives at home, as a souvenir of Colenso amenities ....
A Duet - By Arthur Conan Doyle
...When they come to excavate all this some thousands of years hence, they will think it...
Rhoda Fleming - By George Meredith
...Possibly he had ` some embodied understanding that wine did not fall to the lot of every fellow upon earth : he had heard of gullets unre-freshed even by beer : but at any rate he himself was accustomed to better things, and he did not choose to excavate facts from the mass of his knowledge in order to reconcile himself to the miserable chop he saw for his dinner in the distance--a spot of meat in the arctic circle of a plate, not shone upon by any rosy-warming sun of a decanter !...
The Laird's Luck - By Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
...and within a week a gang of labourers began to excavate on the cliff-top directly above the jutting cornice ....
The Golden House - By Charles Dudley Warner
...Mr. Van Brunt laughed, and said they were not going to excavate this house ....
A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales - By Henry James
...To excavate is an expensive luxury, and neither Camillo nor his latter forefathers had possessed the means for a disinterested pursuit of archffiology ....
My Second Year of the War - By Frederick Palmer
...sides, where they might excavate caves with solid walls ....
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's - By Charles Asbury Stephens
...He drove up to the mill, selected a large, sound pine log about four feet in diameter and set old Davy Glinds, a brother of Hughy Glinds, to excavate a tub from it with an adze ....
How to Write Special Feature Articles - By Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
...To make spring water out of lake water, therefore, it is merely necessary to excavate a considerable area to the desired depth and lead into it the pipes connected with the wells from which water is to be pumped ....
Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities - By James Hayden Tufts, W Wetz, Hugo Helbing, Edward Thomas Owen, George J Tamson, A. L. Pogodin, Karl Brugmann, James Dowden Bruner, A Leskien, Wm E Bohn, William Edward Bohn, Mario Rossi, William Warner Bishop, George Rebec, Otto Knapp, Frank Gaylord Hubbard, Carl Meinhof, Frank Egbert Bryant, Rollo Ogden, Hugo Edward Eick, Fred Newton Scott, Hamilton Holt, Josephine May Burnham, Harry Gilbert Paul, Alexis Frederick Lange, John Harrower, Raymond Durbin Miller
...s. v. -RRB-, excavate, exculpate -LRB- but also exculpate, cf ....
In the Roar of the Sea - By Sabine Baring-Gould
...He had endeavored to stimulate the farmers and land-owners of the parish to excavate the buried church, but his endeavors had proved futile ....