Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
A piece of earthmoving equipment used to level land and build roads. A heavy equipment machinery with a blade on the bottom and a hopper on top, that can carry, scrape-up, and lay-down material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, construction, manufacturing, mining
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: scraper, earthscraper, scraper-trailer, tractor-scraper
Antonyms: none provided
History
From belly + scraper. * (earthmoving heavy equipment): From having a blade that scrapes the ground on the bottom "belly" of the vehicle.
