excavator
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- n a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying
- n a machine for excavating
- Congratulations, excavators of the erotic.
- Also gone were diagrams made by excavators that showed where each stone sarcophagus lay inside the tomb, and what the family relationships might have been, say, between Jesus .
- Napoleon brought his own team of excavators when he invaded in 1798, and a series of expeditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries uncovered one tomb after another.