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- noun Plural form of
dragline .
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Examples
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In more recent years, iron behemoths called draglines - first steam-powered ones and later the electric ones - roamed the landscape.
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In more recent years, iron behemoths called draglines - first steam-powered ones and later the electric ones - roamed the landscape.
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Seven-million-pound " draglines " create vast open-pit mines by digging often 50 feet or deeper with 300-foot-long booms and shovels large enough to cradle trucks.
Miners Dig In for a Fight Mike Esterl 2010
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Finally enormous excavating machines called "draglines" move in to cast the rubble aside and expose the coal.
Daily Kos 2009
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The Silkship glided in, and the three spider-folk dropped from the gondola, spinning draglines behind them and gripping the freshly spun mooring lines with their forelegs.
DRAGON GAMES P.W. CATANESE 2010
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They pulled their draglines after them and devoured the silk.
DRAGON GAMES P.W. CATANESE 2010
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"Three of the mine's four draglines have been idled awaiting access to the new reserves in Hardee County, and output from the single remaining dragline cannot economically support the operating costs of the mine."
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The Silkship glided in, and the three spider-folk dropped from the gondola, spinning draglines behind them and gripping the freshly spun mooring lines with their forelegs.
DRAGON GAMES P.W. CATANESE 2010
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Kaiser and Morrison always thought of a job in terms of draglines and steam shovels.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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They pulled their draglines after them and devoured the silk.
DRAGON GAMES P.W. CATANESE 2010
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