Bulldozer vs. Backhoe

Bulldozer and Backhoe Definitions
Bulldozer
A heavy, driver-operated machine for clearing and grading land, usually having continuous treads and a broad hydraulic blade in front.
Backhoe
A mechanical excavator whose bucket is attached by a hinge to a two-part arm and is drawn backward to the machine when in operation.
Bulldozer
An overbearing person; a bully.
Backhoe
A piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth. Used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
Bulldozer
A tractor with an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
Backhoe
A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader and an excavator/digger.
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Bulldozer
One who bulldozes.
Backhoe
To excavate using such equipment.
Bulldozer
A 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.
Backhoe
An excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth
Bulldozer
(by extension) A bully; an overbearing individual.
Bulldozer
To bulldoze (push through forcefully).
They bulldozered through the crowd.
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Bulldozer
One who bulldozes.
Bulldozer
Large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground