road roller

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   vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements

   Synonymssteamroller

   Broadervehicle

Questions about road roller

What does road roller mean?

road roller means "vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements".

What is another word for road roller?

Close synonyms include steamroller. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is road roller a common word?

road roller is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.