road roller
noun
: one that rolls roadways
specifically
: a machine with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roadbeds
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Featuring a crane truck, excavator, road roller, dump truck, and front loader, this construction set will keep them busy until quitting time.
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Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
Another team uses a road roller to run over the mines and explode them.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
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Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
Another team uses a road roller to run over the mines and explode them.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
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“Road roller.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20roller. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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