Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who dozes or slumbers; one who is slow and listless, as if he were not fully awake.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who dozes or drowses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who dozes
  • noun informal bulldozer

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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Examples

  • Last week, a back-hoe, bull-dozer, something that looks like a steam-roller with cleats, and a dozen men with hard hats moved in and turned the swamp into a landscape that wouldn't look out of place on the moon.

    They're Paving Paradise... Ulysses 2010

  • Last week, a back-hoe, bull-dozer, something that looks like a steam-roller with cleats, and a dozen men with hard hats moved in and turned the swamp into a landscape that wouldn't look out of place on the moon.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Ulysses 2010

  • Jerry in my dozer because it was out of fuel and I jumped in his and finished the job.

    ERNEST RAY LESTER JR 2010

  • I cooled his dozer down, shut it off, and pulled him out with his weapons and ammo.

    ERNEST RAY LESTER JR 2010

  • At first, I was a dozer operator with a life expectancy of 15 seconds.

    ERNEST RAY LESTER JR 2010

  • The company said more than 90% of the trucks produced in Decatur and 80% of the large dozer tractors built in East Peoria are exported to global mining customers.

    Caterpillar to Expand Mining-Truck Output in U.S., Indonesia Bob Tita 2011

  • Crews were doing back burns Tuesday night and trying to build dozer lines around Eager and Springerville to keep the flames away as law enforcement officers patrolled the evacuated areas.

    Thousands ordered out of Ariz. town as fire nears 2011

  • This is dozer at 7 weeks, I wanted to see what he would do with a bird so I tossed him a quail.

    Best Gun Dog Contest 2009

  • Crews were doing back burns Tuesday night and trying to build dozer lines around Eager and Springerville to keep the flames away as law enforcement officers patrolled the evacuated areas.

    Thousands ordered out of Ariz. town as fire nears 2011

  • I remember one night on the dozer when me and a guy name Jerry were cleaning out for a Medi-Vac I noticed it had been a while since I had seen his dozer move so I worked my way over to where he was.

    ERNEST RAY LESTER JR 2010

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