bulldozernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbʊlˌdəʊ.zər/us/ˈbʊlˌdoʊ.zɚ/a heavy vehicle with a large blade in front, used for pushing earth and stones away and for making areas of ground flat at the same time
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Trucks, vans & caravans
- armored car
- armoured car
- bakkie
- bowser
- breakdown truck
- caravan
- Dormobile
- dustcart
- flatbed
- float
- heavy goods vehicle
- horse trailer
- JCB
- juggernaut
- lorry
- milk truck
- pantechnicon
- snowplough
- tender
- traction engine
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Examples from literature
- A bulldozer stood abandoned on it, brand-new and in perfect order, with the smell of gasoline and oil about it.
- Already bulldozers had ploughed out roads to it through the forest.
- He heard the tractors and bulldozers moving along the narrow cliff above him, but he was used to the sound.
- Other bulldozers began to circle methodically around and around, overturning the earth and burying the hot surface stuff.