road roller
a person who rolls roads.
any machine for rolling road materials flat.
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How to use road roller in a sentence
The patient horses who pulled the road-roller or the noisy lawn-mower made his eyes redden savagely.
Kings in Exile | Sir Charles George Douglas RobertsTie a cord through a spool and hitch it as a road roller to the Noah's Ark horse.
Home Occupations for Boys and Girls | Bertha JohnstonBut, you never see a hippopotamus chained to a road-roller, or riding a bicycle.
The Congo and Coasts of Africa | Richard Harding DavisPretty soon a chain of sausages fell in a circle around her, flattening out as if a road-roller had passed over them.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 | Ambrose Bierce
British Dictionary definitions for roadroller
/ (ˈrəʊdˌrəʊlə) /
a motor vehicle with heavy rollers for compressing road surfaces during road-making
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