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dragline

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dragline [′drag‚līn]
(mechanical engineering)
An excavator operated by pulling a bucket on ropes towards the jib from which it is suspended. Also known as dragline excavator.


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In 2000 in Australia, the firm commissioned the largest operating dragline in the world that can move earth the equivalent of two football fields during excavation.
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Corps draglines straightened seven miles of the Cache while bulldozers assaulted the woodland border before a government task force concluded the activity was the "single most damaging project to waterfowl in the nation today," and funding dried up.
 
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