Bulldozer vs. Backhoe

A heavy, driver-operated machine for clearing and grading land, usually having continuous treads and a broad hydraulic blade in front.

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.

An overbearing person; a bully.

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.

A tractor with an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.

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.

One who bulldozes.

To excavate using such equipment.

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.

An excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth

(by extension) A bully; an overbearing individual.

To bulldoze (push through forcefully).

One who bulldozes.

Large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground