Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scraper mounted on wheels, used to excavate earth, transport it, and dump it where it is needed; a road-scraper.
- noun Specifically, a large steel frame mounted on four wheels and carrying a large steel scraper beneath, between the two pairs of wheels.
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Examples
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The story I tell is from last winter, when the southwarden came again, after the usual nine-year interval, cloaked against the wind and salty dust, roaring along in his ancient road-machine, to where we workers trekked on the route from the quarry, having picked up stones from the year before.
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Cathro said this maliciously, yet feeling that he did a risky thing, so convinced was he by old experience that you were getting in the way of a road-machine when you opposed Thomas Sandys.
Tommy and Grizel 1898
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