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grader
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A grader, also commonly referred to as a road grader, motor grader, or simply blade, is a form of heavy equipment with a long blade used to create a flat surface during grading. Although the earliest models were towed behind horses, and later tractors, most modern graders are self-propelled and thus technically "motor graders".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “grader” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.