From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbackhoeback‧hoe /ˈbækhəʊ $ -hoʊ/ noun [countable] American English TTRTEMa large digging machine used for making roads etc
Examples from the Corpus
backhoe• Deputy Chief Larry Wendt said a backhoe will partially dig the graves and the inmates will finish them.• A backhoe dug down to the damaged culvert in the bottom while a crew assembled another culvert up on top.• Paleoseismology, as the new field is called, is science by backhoe.• It was the hoist for the backhoe.• It was thirty-five below, he had to jump-start the backhoe. 