road roller

noun

a person who rolls roads.
any machine for rolling road materials flat.

Origin of road roller

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby road roller

road movie, road pricing, road racing, road rage, road rash, road roller, road show, road tax, road test, road to hell is paved with good intentions, the, road town

Example sentences from the Web for road roller

  • 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 Roberts

  • Pretty 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

  • But, you never see a hippopotamus chained to a road-roller, or riding a bicycle.

    The Congo and Coasts of Africa |Richard Harding Davis