backhoe

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Wikipedia

A backhoe (#1)

A backhoe (#2)

Etymology

From back +‎ hoe.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbæk.həʊ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
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Noun

backhoe (plural backhoes)

A piece of excavating equipment, either an integral subassembly or an attachment, consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth; used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
Coordinate term: front-end loader
(chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component).
Synonym: digger

Hypernym: heavy equipment

Meronym: front-end loader

Coordinate terms: trackhoe; front-end loader; bulldozer, grader
- 1967 June, Charles E. Rhine, “How to Rent a Backhoe”, in Popular Science, page 149:
  The backhoe is only one type of heavy equipment for rent. […] I heard about a couple of tool-rental outfits near Chicago that were doing a brisk business renting backhoes and other heavy equipment to homeowners
- 1987, Dave Roberts, Pipe and Excavation Contracting‎^[1], page 173:
  I'll recommend a good way to calculate backhoe production rates. Then we'll look at the two backhoes you'll be using, the wheeled backhoe and the tracked backhoe.
- 2010, Robert Day, Foundation Engineering Handbook, 2nd edition, page 2.49,
  Backhoe pits and trenches are an economical means of performing subsurface exploration. The backhoe can quickly excavate the trench that can then be used to observe and test the in situ soil (see Fig. 2.29).

Synonyms

(multi-purpose): backhoe loader, loader excavator, backhoe endloader

Derived terms

backhoe loader

Translations

a piece of excavating equipment

Bulgarian: багер (bg) (bager)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: kaivinkone (fi)
French: tractopelle (fr) f, rétrocaveuse (fr) f
German: Baggerschaufel (de) f
Russian: ковш (ru) m (kovš)
Thai: แบ็กโฮ, รถแบ็กโฮ

a multi-purpose tractor

Arabic: عقرب
Bulgarian: екскаватор (bg) m (ekskavator)
Catalan: retroexcavadora f, retrocarregadora f, excavadora carregadora f, excavadora mixta f, carregadora mixta f, pala mixta f
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Danish: rendegraver (da) c
Finnish: traktorikaivuri
French: rétrocaveuse (fr) f, tractopelle (fr) f, chargeuse-pelleteuse (fr) f, (Canada) pépine (fr) f, (Switzerland) trax (fr) m
German: Baggerlader m
Hungarian: kotrórakodó
Italian: terna (it) f
Malay: pengorek-kaut, ڤڠوريق کاءوت (pengurik ka'ut)
Polish: koparkoładowarka
Portuguese: (Portugal) retroescavadora f, (Brazil) retroescavadeira f
Russian: экскаватор (ru) m (ekskavátor)
Serbo-Croatian: građevinska kombinirka
Slovene: traktorski kopač
Spanish: retroexcavadora f, retrocargadora f, excavadora mixta f, cargadora mixta f, pala mixta f
Swedish: traktorgrävare, grävlastare
Turkish: beko loder, kazıcı yükleyici
Ukrainian: зворотна лопата (zvorotna lopata)

Verb

backhoe (third-person singular simple present backhoes, present participle backhoeing, simple past and past participle backhoed)

To excavate using such equipment.