road roller

noun

First recorded in 1885–90

The patient horses who pulled the road-roller or the noisy lawn-mower made his eyes redden savagely.

Tie a cord through a spool and hitch it as a road roller to the Noah's Ark horse.

But, you never see a hippopotamus chained to a road-roller, or riding a bicycle.

Pretty soon a chain of sausages fell in a circle around her, flattening out as if a road-roller had passed over them.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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