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  • noun US, archaeology A professional excavator on cultural resource management projects, who has done extensive field work.
  • verb US, archaeology To excavate, to do archaeology digs.

Etymologies

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From the Old English words scofl (shovel; an excavating machine) and American English bum (with no settled residence)

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