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dragline

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drag·line  (drgln)
n.
1. A line used for dragging.
2. A kind of dredging machine.
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In 2000 in Australia, the firm commissioned the largest operating dragline in the world that can move earth the equivalent of two football fields during excavation.
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Corps draglines straightened seven miles of the Cache while bulldozers assaulted the woodland border before a government task force concluded the activity was the "single most damaging project to waterfowl in the nation today," and funding dried up.
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