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zər noun
1.
a large, powerful tractor having a vertical blade at the front end for moving earth, tree stumps, rocks, etc.
2.
a person who intimidates or coerces.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a powerful tractor fitted with caterpillar tracks and a blade at the front, used for moving earth, rocks, etc |
| 2. | informal a person who bulldozes |
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Bulldozer
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
bulldozer
"person who intimidates by violence," 1876, from bulldoze (q.v.). Meaning extended to ground-clearing caterpillar tractor in 1930.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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bulldozer
powerful machine for pushing earth or rocks, used in road building, farming, construction, and wrecking; it consists of a heavy, broad steel blade or plate mounted on the front of a tractor. Sometimes it uses a four-wheel-drive tractor, but usually a track or crawler type, mounted on continuous metal treads, is employed. The blade may be lifted and forced down by hydraulic rams. For digging, the blade is held below surface level; for transporting, it is held at the surface level; and for spreading, it is held above the surface level, as the tractor moves forward
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Example sentences
Above this tableau, at the lip of the ravine, a bulldozer idles.
The only noise comes from a bulldozer smoothing the coal-mound and the cawing of rooks.
He recalls hearing about a bulldozer that was working on a bridge near a creek on the lower end of town.
The bulldozer met the three requirements of the farm machinery and equipment exemption statute.
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