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  2. Coal scuttle - Wikipedia

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    The word scuttle comes, via Middle English and Old English, from the Latin word scutulla, meaning "serving platter". [3] An alternative name, hod, derives from the Old French hotte, meaning " 'basket to carry on the back', apparently from Frankish *hotta or some other Germanic source (compare Middle High German hotze 'cradle')", and is also used in reference to boxes used to carry bricks or ...

  3. Marion 6360 - Wikipedia

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    The only Marion shovel that compared (in size and scope) to "The Captain" was the Marion 5960-M Power Shovel that worked at Peabody Coal Company's (Peabody Energy) River Queen Surface Mine in Central City, Kentucky. It was named the "Big Digger" and carried a 125-cubic-yard (96 m 3) bucket on a 215-foot-long (66 m) boom. It was Marion Power ...

  4. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...

  5. Get your motor running for a return to the Coal Bucket Saloon ...

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    Dec. 23—For 15 years, the MountainFest Motorcycle Rally at Mylan Park was hallowed ground for the get-yer-motor runnin', four-stroke, air-cooled, V-Twin, teardrop tank, two-wheeled, acolytes of ...

  6. List of CB slang - Wikipedia

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    A favorite tool of "Alligator Stations," "Bucket Mouths" and "Linear Lungs." Frowned upon by most users. Lot lizard A prostitute in a rest area or the parking area of a truck stop. Mud Duck A cb user that has a weak signal and they keep trying to talk despite the fact that no one can understand them. Nap Trap A rest area. Negatory

  7. The Bucket Rider - Wikipedia

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    The story is about a man looking for coal to fill his bucket. He is a poor man and hopes that the coal-dealer will be generous enough to lend him some coal. He claims that he will pay for the coal later. When he arrives, he pleads for the coal, but it soon becomes apparent that the coal-dealer and his wife are oblivious to his needs.

  8. Hulett - Wikipedia

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    The machine's operator, stationed in the vertical beam above the bucket for maximum cargo visibility, could spin the beam at any angle. The scoop bucket was lowered into the ship's hold, closed to capture a quantity (10 tons approx.) of ore, raised, and moved back toward the dock. The workmen who operated the Hulett uploaders were known as Ore ...

  9. Big Brutus - Wikipedia

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    Big Brutus is the centerpiece of a mining museum in West Mineral, Kansas, United States, where it was used in coal strip mining operations. The shovel was designed to dig from 20 to 69 feet (6.1 to 21.0 m) [ 1 ] down to unearth relatively shallow coal seams, which would then be mined with smaller equipment.