Crossword clues for bulldozer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bulldozer \Bull"do`zer\, n. One who bulldozes. [Slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person who intimidates by violence," 1876, agent noun from bulldoze (q.v.). Meaning extended to ground-clearing caterpillar tractor in 1930.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tractor with an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc. 2 One who bulldozes. 3 (context chiefly in the plural English) 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. Also known as "regulators". Later used to describe anyone who intimidated or bullied in a similar manner. 4 A bully, overbearing individual. vb. To bulldoze (push through forcefully).
WordNet
n. large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground [syn: dozer]
Wikipedia
A bulldozer is a crawler ( continuous tracked tractor) equipped with a substantial metal plate (known as a blade) used to push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble, or other such material during construction or conversion work and typically equipped at the rear with a claw-like device (known as a ripper) to loosen densely compacted materials.
Bulldozers can be found on a wide range of sites, mines and quarries, military bases, heavy industry factories, engineering projects and farms.
The term "bulldozer" refers only to a tractor (usually tracked) fitted with a dozer blade.
Bulldozer was a monster truck that raced in the USHRA Monster Jam series. It featured one of the first 3-D body shells, with horns sticking out of the roof. In this respect, it resembled El Toro Loco. The truck debuted as a promotional truck for Smoke Craft jerky in the USA Motorsports series in 1997 (USA Motorsports owned the rights to the truck), and several different entertainment companies received the rights when they bought out USA Motorsports in 1999, including SFX, PACE Motorsports, Clear Channel, Live Nation, and lastly FELD Motorsports. The truck has been driven previously by Bobby Zoelner, Steve Reynolds, Rob Knell, former Taurus driver Eldon DePew, and current Maximum Destruction superstar Tom Meents, as well as Chuck Werner and Alex Blackwell. Bulldozer sometimes switched bodies with Hot Wheels, Bob & Tom, or High Roller.
Originally the owner & driver of the Bulldozer monster truck was Guy Wood, who had been racing monster trucks for 15 years. Guy got his start in the sport of monster truck racing at a race track near to his home at the time. As demand for his presence increased, so did his interest in the sport until he was racing the truck full-time. Eventually, Guy gave the rights to Bulldozer to USA Motorsports.
Bulldozer is an extreme metal band from Milan, Italy, that was active from 1980 until 1990. They have reunited as of 2008.
Bulldozer is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Bulldozer may refer to:
- Bulldozer, a type of caterpillar tracked tractor with a big front blade
- Bulldozer (band), an Italian metal band
- Bulldozer (comics), a fictional character from Marvel Comics
- Bulldozer (film), a 1978 Italian film about an American Football player
- Bulldozer (EP), the second EP of the band Big Black
- Bulldozer (microarchitecture), a CPU (processor) microarchitecture code-name by AMD
- Bulldozer (truck), a monster truck
- "The bulldozer", the nickname of Israeli general and prime minister Ariel Sharon
- Redirect List of Marvel Comics characters: B#Bulldozer
Category:Marvel Comics supervillains
Bulldozer is the second EP by Chicago post-hardcore band Big Black, released in 1983. It was their first release to feature an actual band performing, including Pat Byrne from Urge Overkill playing drums on some of the songs. On Bulldozer, Big Black's founder and frontman Steve Albini achieved a signature "clanky" sound with his guitar by using metal guitar picks notched with sheet metal clips, creating the effect of two guitar picks at once. The Bulldozer EP was recorded with engineer Iain Burgess and released in December 1983, with the first two hundred copies packaged in a galvanized sheet metal sleeve in homage to Public Image Ltd.'s Metal Box. Many of the EP's lyrics depicted scenarios drawn from Albini's midwest upbringing, such as "Cables", which described the slaughtering of cows at a Montana abattoir, and "Pigeon Kill", about a rural Indiana town that dealt with an overpopulation of pigeons by feeding them poisoned corn.
The AMD Bulldozer Family 15h is a microprocessor microarchitecture for the FX and Opteron line of processors, developed by AMD for the desktop and server markets. Bulldozer is the codename for this family of microarchitectures. It was released on October 12, 2011 as the successor to the K10 microarchitecture.
Bulldozer is designed from scratch, not a development of earlier processors. The core is specifically aimed at computing products with TDPs of 10 to 125 watts. AMD claims dramatic performance-per-watt efficiency improvements in high-performance computing (HPC) applications with Bulldozer cores.
The Bulldozer cores support most of the instruction sets implemented by Intel processors available at its introduction (including SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES, CLMUL, and AVX) as well as new instruction sets proposed by AMD; ABM, XOP, FMA4 and F16C.
Usage examples of "bulldozer".
Allen lowered the bulldozer blade and began another pass at the diminishing hillside.
Hitting a ton of firmly embedded rock unexpectedly does nothing at all for the effectiveness of a bulldozer blade.
Ross could afford to quit driving a bulldozer and begin full-time writing.
The slab had been the roof of a huge cavern of some kind, and the bulldozer had fallen through?
The slab had exploded when the bulldozer had driven over it, and he had been killed instantly?
But that would mean that the bulldozer had died, too, and gone with him to wherever he was.
He had blacked out mentally and driven the bulldozer some place where he could black out physically?
He leaped down from the bulldozer, dropped to his knees and began examining the floor, while Kujawa watched with the gloomy expression of someone who has just watched a friend carted off to a home for the mentally bewildered.
Ignoring the construction boss, Ross ran his hands over the floor, almost immediately discovering a hairline crack running parallel to the bulldozer tread.
Driving the bulldozer over it must have triggered it somehow, so driving over it again should get us back.
Ross stowed his share of the dynamite more cautiously, unlocked the brakes, put the bulldozer in gear, and backed across the square.
Ross exclaimed, recognizing the voice of Sam Southworth, the other bulldozer operator.
The construction boss was leaning against the bulldozer tread to prop himself up while the laughter shook his whole body.
Kujawa had climbed onto the bulldozer and were ready to start off, the feeling of anticipation and curiosity that flooded through Ross totally overwhelmed any remnants of the despair that he had felt so strongly only minutes before.
As the bulldozer continued to chew its way through the tangle of vegetation, he began looking at things more closely.