The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word BULLDOZER
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More clues leading to the result BULLDOZER
- Male asleep, perhaps, in powerful tractor
- Earth-mover placing rubbish alongside sleeper
- It clears land for sort of market one sleeps under
- Male, one that’s dropped off vehicle
- One who coerces animal to sleep by river
- Farm animal, sleepy type in tractor
- Force through edict before 12, with a number defecting
- What might shift a sleeping elephant?
- Does this heavy vehicle put bovines to sleep?
- Vehicle animal draws with zero running
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The straight part
We know that "Earthmover" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case earthmover = bulldozer.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BULLDOZER mean?
BULLDOZER noun- A tractor with an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
- One who bulldozes.
- (chiefly in the plural) A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.
- (by extension) A bully; an overbearing individual.
- To bulldoze (push through forcefully).