different between bulldozer vs drott

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

English

Etymology

From the name of the Drott Manufacturing Company, founded by Edward Drott in 1916.

Noun

drott (plural drotts)

1. An earthmoving machine similar to a bulldozer, but with a front bucket that can be used for scooping and lifting soil, rather than merely pushing it.
   • 1969, Nan Bowie, Mick Bowie: the Hermitage Years (page 158)

     The drivers of bulldozers, drotts, and other types of mechanical shovels worked long hours in appalling weather.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse dróttinn

Noun

drott m (definite singular drotten, indefinite plural drotter, definite plural drottene)

1. (archaic) lord

References

• “drott” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse dróttinn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dr?t?/

Noun

drott m (definite singular drotten, indefinite plural drottar, definite plural drottane)

1. (archaic) lord

References

• “drott” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• drotte
• drotten (very rare)

Etymology

From Old Swedish drotin (with -in interpreted as the definite suffix), from Old Norse dróttinn, from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz. Related to dryg (lasting, heavy).

Noun

drott c

1. (archaic) king, ruler
2. (archaic) lord; nobility just below the king

Declension

This table shows modern forms. Until the 19th century the plural could be formed with -er instead of -ar.

References

• drott in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)