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▪ I. dozer1|ˈdəʊzə(r)| [f. doze v. + -er1.] One who dozes or sleeps drowsily.
1710Fuller Tatler No. 205 ⁋2 To add to my Dead and Living Men, Persons in an intermediate State..under the Appellation of Dozers. 1882Harper's Mag. LXV. 633 When he aroused himself from a nap in church, arose, and looked sternly about to catch some luckless dozer. ▪ II. dozer2|ˈdəʊzə(r)| Also 'dozer. Colloq. shortening of bulldozer.
1942Infantry Jrnl. (U.S.) Oct. 51 The blade of the dozer is not much good. 1949Landfall III. 174 Come trucks and lux and tools of trade Motor tyres a dozer-blade. 1958Daily Mail 16 July 6/6 These modern devices have such names as the tractor shovel, the crawler-loader, the dozer. 1959‘J. R. Macdonald’ Galton Case (1960) xxvi. 204 You could of knocked me over with a 'dozer. 1971Engineering Apr. 52 The whole caterpillar-built range including lift trucks, track and wheel loaders, and dozers. |