Definition of backhoe
:an excavating machine having a bucket that is attached to a rigid bar hinged to a boom and that is drawn toward the machine in operation
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Victor Hijar’s dream is dying, suffocated by piles of gravel and swirls of dust, obscured by a backhoe and a mountain of pipes, cut off by a phalanx of orange barricades.
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The mayor directed the contractor to run a backhoe down about a mile’s-worth of Whiskey Run Creek stream bed.
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For many years, the wind blew the sand in a less-threatening direction, and family members used a backhoe to push it away.
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DiNardo and Kratz allegedly use a backhoe to dig a hole and bury the three men.
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DiNardo then allegedly used a backhoe to dig a hole about 6-feet deep, and buried Patrick inside.
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Dinardo allegedly used a backhoe to dig a 6-foot-deep hole and bury Patrick, investigators said.
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Dinardo drives the property's backhoe to that remote location and digs a hole about six feet deep, puts Patrick's body in the ground, and buries him, the complaint states.
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Another man came to field-dress the bull, and hauled it away with a backhoe, but left the cow, the hunters told Baird.
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First Known Use of backhoe
1928
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