Meaning & use
Dragline
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A large excavating machine that uses a bucket suspended from a boom and dragged along the ground to dig and move material.
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The mining company used a massive dragline to strip away the overburden.
Draglines can move enormous volumes of earth in open-pit mining operations.
A note on using this word
Also refers to a spider's non-sticky safety thread used to anchor its movements.
Another way to use it
2. noun
A strand of silk that a spider trails behind it as a safety line while moving.
The spider descended slowly on its dragline.
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