Bull dozing (1876)

Sun May 15 10:28:23 UTC 2005

The 1876 Chicago Tribune brings with it interesting "bulldoze" citations.  
I've got to doze off, but here are some items.
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Bulls doze? Who knew? I thought mares and does doze.
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_WHITE  REGULATORS.; CHARACTERISTIC OUTRAGES COMMITTED BY THEM IN LOUISIANA A 
NEGRO  PREACHER HANGED UNTIL INSENSIBLE IN A CHURCH._ 
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New York  Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jul 5, 1876. p. 8 (1 
page) 
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_LOUISIANA  TILDENISM.; WHOLESALE MURDERS COMMITTED BY DEMOCRATIC 
CONFEDERATES IN  LOUISIANA--A NEGRO PREACHER HANGED UNTIL INSENSIBLE IN A CHURCH. A 
DEVILISHNESS  SO TERRIBLE HANGED FIVE MEN BRUTAL AND CRIMINAL TREATMENT "LET US 
HANG  THE--PREACHER. LET THE RUFFIANS GO FREE. _ 
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Chicago Daily  Tribune. Jul 18, 1876. p. 2 (1 page):
Their votes, unfortunately, make a Republican ward, and the white  
bulldozing, shot-gun riders from afar are ordered there to disturb, to kill, to  make 
hell of a peaceful neighborhood, and the citizens are powerless to protect  
their colored neighbors, being themselves intimidated to such an extent that  they 
dare not give the names of the Democratic Committee having charge of the  
killing.
(From the New Orleans Republican--ed.)
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_"BULL-DOZING."_ 
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Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Nov 18,  1876. p. 4 (1 
page) 
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(OED)
bull-dose, -doze, n. and v.
orig. U.S. colloq.  
[According to U.S. newspapers, f. _BULL_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi
/crossref?xrefword=bull&ps=n.&homonym_no=1)  n.1 + _DOSE_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/crossref?xrefword=dose) .]   
A.  n. ? A severe dose (of flogging).  

1876 American Newspr., If a negro is invited to join it [a society called ‘
The Stop’],  and refuses, he is taken to the woods and whipped. This whipping is 
called a  ‘bull-doze’, or doze fit for a bull. 1881 Sat.  Rev. 9 July 40/2 A 
‘bull-dose’ means a large  efficient dose of any sort of medicine or  
punishment.

B.  v. (The usual spelling, influenced by _BULLDOZER_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/crossref?xrefword=bulldozer)  2a, is now  bulldoze.)  
1.  a. ? To flog severely.    b. To coerce by violence, intimidate. 

1880 C. B. BERRY  Other Side 155 They..pull him  out of bed with a revolver 
to his head..That's called ‘bull-dosing’ a man. 1881 Sat.  Rev. 9 July 40/2 To 
‘bull-dose’ a negro in the  Southern States means to flog him to death, or 
nearly to death. 1884 _H.  GEORGE_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-g.html#h-george)  Social Prob. 16 Large  Employers regularly ‘bulldose’ their 
hands into voting as they wish. 1897 _E. A.  BARTLETT_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-b.html#e-a-bartlett)  Battlefields of Thessaly iii. 53 There 
is a remarkable resemblance..between the way in which  English public opinion 
has been ‘bulldozed’ and misled in both cases. 1916 _J. B.  COOPER_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-c3.html#j-b-cooper)  Coo-oo-ee! viii. 104  
Debenham backed Danvers up by..pointing out to Hawley the folly  of handing a 
loaded revolver to Boder to examine. They simply bull-dozed Hawley. 1941 _G. G.  
SCHOLEM_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-s.html#g-g-scholem)  Major 
Trends in Jewish Mysticism viii.  320 The philosophers who tried to bulldoze us 
into accepting the  God of Aristotle as the God of Religion. 1954  Encounter 
July 31/1 The  men..were..trying to bulldoze the creative Czech artist..into 
conformity with  the precepts of Socialist  Realism.

2.  a. intr. To use a bulldozer (_BULLDOZER_ 
(http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/crossref?xrefword=bulldozer)  2a); also, to  push one's way by means of a 
bulldozer. Also trans., to move,  clear, or level by means of a bulldozer.  

1942  Interpretation Aerial Photographs (U.S. War  Dept., Techn. Man. 
TM5-246) 188 The road was constructed by  bulldozing the earth and painting the edges 
with asphalt paint. 1944 Reader's  Digest Aug. 93 Men were coming out of the 
sea  continually and starting to Men digging, hammering, bulldozing. 1946  
Spectator 12 Apr. 372/1  Americans had to bulldoze their way through the rubble. 
1948 Time 5 July 19/3 Trucks were  lumbering..up a goat path, newly  bulldozed.

b.  transf. and fig.  

1948 Sat.  Rev. Lit. 21 Feb. 26 She bulldozed her way  through her songs. 
1950 G. BARKER News of World 37 The  juggernauts Go bulldozing through my 
thoughts. 1963 Rev.  Eng. Studies XIV. 319 The second edition of  1934..has been 
bulldozed away and a new edifice constructed.

So bulldozed  ppl. a., bulldozing  vbl. n. and ppl. a.  

1876 American  Newspr., The application of the bull-doze was for  the purpose 
of making Tilden voters; hence we hear of the ‘bull-dozed’ parishes. 1937 
Geogr.  Jrnl. XC. 369 ‘Bull-dozing’, in which the  vertical walls at the head 
of a gully are destroyed and a sloping surface  constructed. 1949 Good  H
ousekeeping June 76/2 Every panacea-pamphlet  that pours from the bull-dozing pens 
of doctrinaire Utopians. 1953 Proc.  Prehist. Soc. XIX. 232 The destruction of 
many of  the downland earthworks by bulldozing and deep  ploughing. 