bulldozer = 'bucket loader'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Don't feel too bad. I have heard them so called by cable-news journalists.

Certain military armored cars too, come to think of it.

JL

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:

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> I wish it had occurred to me to save the Army Times photo caption of an
> armored personnel carrier as a "tank."
> Dave Hause, dwhause at cablemo.net
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> From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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> Today a completely different CNN reporter, in a totally different part of
> the world, referred to a front-end loader as a "bulldozer," as though this
> were _le mot juste_.
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> JL
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> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > I remember the machines from the later 1950s.  My speech community called
> > them simply "loaders."
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> > --Charlie
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> > BTW, "bucket loader" was originally applied (some will say "correctly")
> to
> > a rather different kind of loading machine - which isn't in OED either!
> >
> > Does anybody know when "front-end loaders" were introduced? I seem to
> > recall seeing one in action in NYC in 1953, though I was too young to
> have
> > had any word for it at the time. But I don't fully trust my memory in
> this
> > case: it could have been a backhoe or even a real bulldozer (though I
> > think
> > I'd have recognized the latter).
> >
> > But I'm pretty sure it was that yellowish color.
> >
> > JL
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