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Why is a building site called a Plant?

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ahaughto | 16:44 Wed 28th Feb 2001 | Phrases & Sayings
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Why is a building site called a 'Plant'? I appreciate that it has 'plant' machinery but why 'plant'?
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According to the Ecarta Dictionary, the word plant comes from the action of pressing a foot on a shovel with the sole of the foot to prepare the ground for planting. The Latin 'planta' comes from an Indo-European base meaning 'to spread', and this has also given us the English words flat and place. Maybe this connection has come to mean a building site, which is a flat place.
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