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concrete mixer
Word definitions for concrete mixer in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a machine with a large revolving drum in which cement is mixed with other materials to make concrete [syn: cement mixer ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A concrete mixer (often mistakenly called a cement mixer ) is a device that homogeneously combines cement , aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete . A typical concrete mixer uses a revolving drum to mix the components. For smaller ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was working on a building site at Middle Barton in North Oxfordshire when a concrete mixer rolled back toward a workman.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A cement mixer
Usage examples of concrete mixer.
The other man looked as if his face had challenged a concrete mixer and lost.
Biff was driving a concrete mixer, while Phil Cohen, busy writing on a clipboard, stood near an abutment of the bridge under construction.
A sterilizing substance was spread over the barren earth, and a concrete mixer brought in and parked at the ready on the site.
A water tank and fast-setting concrete mixer dumped a solution in the hole, and a portable pulley was anchored on four sides by two officers putting their entire weight on its metal feet at each corner.
From the other side of the panels comes the sound of a concrete mixer.
The sound of the hammer, the music of the drill, the concrete mixer, the welding torch never stopped in Israel!
I stood listening to the moan of the trams at the far side of the park, and the chugging of a concrete mixer where a night crew was putting up a new apartment complex.
He jumped feet first into a concrete mixer, and it took him seven days to die after I put him on my shoulder and carried him out there.
Vic felt like someone had found him under a concrete mixer and had thankfully brought a crowbar and worked him loose.
A pile of old boards, a careful stack of new lumber, a pick and shovel, a sand-pile, heaps of fresh-turned earth, and a concrete mixer—.
The hotel room we had man- aged to get-since we hadn't arrived Monday evening to claim the one we had reserved-was small, dark and noisy, and had one window which overlooked a building operation where a concrete mixer was raising cain.