bulldozer
A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building…A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
» Tom knows how to drive a bulldozer.
Meaning
4 sensesA tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
Planierraupe, Bulldozer
бульдо́зерbulʹdózer
бульдо́зерbulʹdózer
One who bulldozes.
(historical, in the plural)A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.
(broadly)A bully; an overbearing individual.
- large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground
Examples
12 sentencesTom knows how to drive a bulldozer.
They are now leveling the road with a bulldozer.
ruТеперь они выравнивают дорогу бульдозером. — odexed
I also want a bulldozer.
Oleg blocked the passage with a bulldozer.
A bulldozer was used to level the lane.
deEin Bulldozer wurde eingesetzt, um die Fahrbahn zu ebnen. — Tamy
Translations
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Origin
Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bullier and terrorizer sense; bulldozeOriginally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bullier and terrorizer sense; bulldoze + -er. The name for the earthmoving machine came later, figuratively, from that sense.
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Forms
plural: bulldozers| Singular | bulldozer |
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