Where does “bulldozer” come from?

Bulldozer comes from English bulldose, formed from English bull and English dose, ultimately tracing to Latin -arius and Latin -are verbal and agentival suffixes through Old French -er.

bulldozer (English): A tractor with an attached blade for pushing...

Definitions

  1. A tractor with an attached blade for pushing...

Ancestry of “bulldozer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbulldozeTo destroy with a bulldozer; To push someone over...
2Englishbulldose—

Words derived from “bulldozer”

Every word from English bulldose →Every word from English bulldoze →