dragline

As nouns the difference between shovel and dragline

is that shovel is a hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots while dragline is any of several very large vehicles used for lifting in the process of mining.

As a verb shovel

is to move materials with a shovel.

As nouns the difference between dragline and clamshell

is that dragline is any of several very large vehicles used for lifting in the process of mining while clamshell is the shell of a clam.

As an adjective clamshell is

similar to the operation of a clam's shell, having a hinge with two sides closing together.

As nouns the difference between dragline and draglink

is that dragline is any of several very large vehicles used for lifting in the process of mining while draglink is (engineering) a link connecting the cranks of two shafts.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and dragline

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while dragline is any of several very large vehicles used for lifting in the process of mining.

As nouns the difference between mining and dragline

is that mining is (activity of removing solid valuables from the earth) The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth while dragline is any of several very large vehicles used for lifting in the process of mining.

As a verb mining

is present participle of lang=en.