backhoe loader
Meanings
noun
- A type of heavy equipment, a wheeled tractor unit with an excavator arm on the back and a payloader attachment on the front, and usually having hydraulic outrigger arms for stabilization. Such tractors frequently have the excavator bucket replaced by other attachments such as a jackhammer, and may have forklift forks replacing the loader bucket attachment.
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Etymology
backhoe + loader. From being a combination tractor vehicle with a back-end digger unit and a front-end loader unit.
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