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/ˌɛkskəvˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Excavation n.

The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. "A winding excavation."

(Engin.)

(a)

An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

(b)

The material dug out in making a channel or cavity. "The delivery of the excavations at a distance of 250 feet."

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Etymology of 'Excavation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Excavation" Quotes from Famous Books

... "black chipping-bird," as it is known among the farmers, is the finest architect of any of the ground-builders known to me. The site of its nest is usually some low bank by the roadside, near a wood. In a slight excavation, with a partially concealed entrance, the exquisite structure is placed. Horse and cow hair are plentifully used, imparting to the interior of the nest great symmetry and firmness as well ...

— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

... finds and of publications, is smaller than in 1913. In part the outbreak of war in August called off various supervisors and not a few workmen from excavations then in progress; in one case it prevented a proposed excavation from being begun. It also seems to have retarded the issue of some archaeological periodicals. But the scarcity of finds is much more due to natural causes. The most extensive excavations of the year, ...

— Roman Britain in 1914 • F. Haverfield

... to the site and observes the progress of the work and how it is being done. Special conditions may arise where the contractor or his foreman call hurriedly for the architect, such as uncovering a large boulder at one corner of the excavation for the cellar. There may be a fine point to be decided regarding the location of piping or some detailed instruction concerning the installation of the interior woodwork. On these occasions it saves time for everybody if the architect or one of his associates is readily ...

— If You're Going to Live in the Country • Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley

... all I had ever seen upon Barsoom, was built in a large excavation. Only the highest seats, which formed the low wall surrounding the pit, were above the level of the ground. The arena itself was far ...

— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... mossy rock of which we have spoken as being close to the sycamore walk, at the foot of a wall against which it flowed, forming a rather deep excavation, the current had found a vein of soft, brittle stone which, by its incessant force, it had ended in wearing away. It was a natural grotto formed by water, but which earth, in its turn, had undertaken to embellish. ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

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