Usually means: Excavator with bucket and arm.
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  1. backhoe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. backhoe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backhoe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backhoe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backhoe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backhoe, backhoe: Wordnik
  7. backhoe: Wiktionary
  8. backhoe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. backhoe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. backhoe: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. backhoe: Dictionary.com
  12. Backhoe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. backhoe: Rhymezone
  14. backhoe: Free Dictionary
  15. backhoe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. backhoe: Dictionary/thesaurus
  17. backhoe: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. backhoe: Encyclopedia

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  1. Backhoe, the backhoe: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  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.
noun:  (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).
verb:  To excavate using such equipment.

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