belly dumper

English

Alternative forms

• belly-dumper

Noun

belly dumper (plural belly dumpers)

1. A type of dump truck that unloads through a dump gate at the bottom of the trailer.
   • 1999, Lorelei Anne Lambert, Keepers of the Central Fire: Issues in Ecology for Indigenous Peoples, →ISBN:

     But before Three and Four [Generating plants from Montana Power that use coal from Colestrip to generate power] was built, everything that was hauled in [to the mine] was on a belly dumper.

   • 2010, David Peetz, Georgina Murray -, Women of the Coal Rushes, →ISBN, page 257:

     Eloise described how, in her job: Day by day it's different; it could be the grader, it could be a water cart, it could be a rear tipper, it could be a belly dumper, it could be a dozer.

   • 2017, Raymond D. Clements, Aussie Rogue, →ISBN, page 41:

     A driver called 'Frenchy' got really pissed off with Noel putting too much water on the road in front of his belly dumper, but Noel stopped doing that to the Frenchman as he had a daughter that was horse mad, just like Noel, and he wanted to get into the Frenchman's good books!