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excavate
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The Secret Hour
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- The Clovis Period Excavation Museum was a long, low building.†
Chpt 12
- One wall of the museum was open to the original Bixby excavation, the walkways suspended a few feet from the raw earth.
Chpt 12 *excavation = archaeological dig-- where antiquities were unearthed
- Set into the hard clay, as if never fully excavated, were tools made of bone, fossilized wooden implements, obsidian flakes in the shape of arrowheads, and the skeleton of a saber-toothed tiger.†
Chpt 12
- He led her to a museum case by the excavated wall.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(excavate) to dig outin various senses, including:
- remove or lay bare -- as when removing top soil to lay a foundation
- find or uncover -- as at an archaeological site
- remove a part -- as a tooth from the gum that surrounds it
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)