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concrete mixer
noun
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▪ He was working on a building site at Middle Barton in North Oxfordshire when a concrete mixer rolled back toward a workman.
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concrete mixer

n. A cement mixer

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concrete mixer

n. a machine with a large revolving drum in which cement is mixed with other materials to make concrete [syn: cement mixer]

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Concrete mixer

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 volume works portable concrete mixers are often used so that the concrete can be made at the construction site, giving the workers ample time to use the concrete before it hardens. An alternative to a machine is mixing concrete by hand. This is usually done in a wheelbarrow; however, several companies have recently begun to sell modified tarps for this purpose.

The concrete mixer was invented by Columbus industrialist Gebhardt Jaeger.

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.