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bellyscraper

The English word “bellyscraper” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A piece of earthmoving equipment used to level land and build roads. A heavy equipment machinery with a blade on the bottom and a hopper on top, that can carry, scrape-up, and lay-down material.

Etymology

From belly + scraper. * (earthmoving heavy equipment): From having a blade that scrapes the ground on the bottom "belly" of the vehicle.

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