different between backhoe vs bulldozer

English

Etymology

From back +? hoe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæk.h??/

Noun

backhoe (plural backhoes)

1. A piece of excavating equipment consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth.
2. (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket.
   • 1967 June, Charles E. Rhine, How to Rent a Backhoe, Popular Science, page 149,

     The backhoe is only one type of heavy equipment for rent. […] I heard about a couple of tool-rental outfits near Chicago that were doing a brisk business renting backhoes and other heavy equipment to homeowners

   • 2010, Robert Day, Foundation Engineering Handbook, 2nd edition, page 2.49,

     Backhoe pits and trenches are an economical means of performing subsurface exploration. The backhoe can quickly excavate the trench that can then be used to observe and test the in situ soil (see Fig. 2.29).

Synonyms

• (multi-purpose): backhoe loader, loader excavator, backhoe endloader
• (digger): excavator

Derived terms

• backhoe loader

Translations

See also

• bobcat
• excavator
• front-end loader
• JCB

Verb

backhoe (third-person singular simple present backhoes, present participle backhoeing, simple past and past participle backhoed)

1. To excavate using such equipment.

Further reading

• Backhoe loader on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology

Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US); bulldoze +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?ldo?z?/

Noun

bulldozer (plural bulldozers)

1. A tractor with an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
2. One who bulldozes.
3. (historical, chiefly in the plural) 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.
4. (by extension) A bully; an overbearing individual.

Synonyms

• (member of intimidating white US Southerners): regulator

• blade (slang, 1940s and after)

Translations

Verb

bulldozer (third-person singular simple present bulldozers, present participle bulldozering, simple past and past participle bulldozered)

1. To bulldoze (push through forcefully).

Further reading

• bulldozer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bulldozer.

Noun

bulldozer c (definite plural bulldozeren, indefinite plural bulldozere, definite plural bulldozerne)

1. a bulldozer (crawler tractor with an attached blade)

French

Etymology

From American English bulldozer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul.do.z??/, /byl.do.z??/

Noun

bulldozer m (plural bulldozers)

1. bulldozer

Further reading

• “bulldozer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Noun

bulldozer m (plural bulldozeres)

1. bulldozer