road grader — noun or road machine also road scraper : a wheeled device having a long inclined vertically adjustable steel blade used to throw earth and other surface material from the side to the center of a road … Useful english dictionary
Grader — Modern grader, in foreground A grader, also commonly referred to as a road grader, a blade, a maintainer, or a motor grader, is a construction machine with a long blade used to create a flat surface. Typical models have three axles, with the… … Wikipedia
grader — See road grader … Ballentine's law dictionary
road scraper — noun see road grader * * * road scraper noun An implement for clearing roads of loose material • • • Main Entry: ↑road … Useful english dictionary
road machine — noun see road grader … Useful english dictionary
road — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. way, path, track, passage, highway, roadway, thoroughfare, trail; anchorage. See abode. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A strip prepared for travel] Syn. path, way, highway, roadway, street, avenue,… … English dictionary for students
grader — A road construction vehicle with a large blade which scrapes gravel to smooth or level a surface. Graders are also used to remove snow from roads … Dictionary of automotive terms
grader — n. 1 a person or thing that grades. 2 a wheeled machine for levelling the ground, esp. in road making. 3 (in comb.) US a pupil of a specified grade in a school … Useful english dictionary
King road drag — The King road drag (also known as the Missouri road drag and the split log road drag) was a road grader implement for grading dirt roads that revolutionized the maintenance of the dirt roads in the early 1900s. It was invented by David Ward King … Wikipedia
Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road — is a km to mi|num=568|abbr=no|spell=Commonwealth|precision=0|wiki=yes long annual ice road first built in 1982 to service mines and exploration activities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in northern Canada. The road is the world s… … Wikipedia