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A bulldozer is a big, heavy machine with a wide metal blade on the front. The driver uses that blade to push earth, rocks, and broken buildings out of the way. Builders bring one in to land before they start work. After a storm or a fire, a bulldozer clears the mess so people can move again. It usually runs on metal tracks, like a tank, so it does not sink in mud. It is not the machine with a long arm and a digging bucket — that one digs; a bulldozer mainly pushes. People also call a person a bulldozer when they force a plan through and do not listen. That use is informal and a little . The machine name is younger than the word. In the 1870s in Louisiana, in the United States, a bull-dozer was a person who bullied and others; to bulldoze meant to scare someone into doing what you want. Later the earth-moving machine got the name, as a picture of that same ‘push everything aside’ idea.
組成Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bully-and-terrorizer sense; bulldoze + -er. The earth-moving machine was named later, as a picture of that older meaning.
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- bulldozethe verb this noun is built from: to push earth with the machine, or to force a plan through
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bulldozernoun/ˈbʊlˌdoʊzɚ/
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A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
- The bulldozer is a caterpillar tractor on the front of which is mounted a heavy steel blade which can be moved up and down by hydraulic gear. By sheer brute force it can push down trees and hedges, remove obstructions (including light brickwork) and level and consolidate newly-tipped banks.
- More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.
- 2
One who bulldozes.
- 3
historicalA 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.
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A bully; an overbearing individual.
bulldozerverb/ˈbʊlˌdoʊzɚ/
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To bulldoze (demolish with a bulldozer).
- 2
To bulldoze (push through forcefully).
- They bulldozered through the crowd.
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