gritter
Winter road vehicle
A gritter is a truck that spreads salt or grit on roads to prevent ice from forming, common in British English: The gritters were out all night before the storm.
Americans more often call this vehicle a salt truck or snowplow.
The term can also refer to the worker operating such a vehicle.
Vehicle clearing frozen precipitation
- de-icerAgent that melts frost
- fleetVehicles under unified command
- driverVehicle operator
- routesPaths for travel
depot · council · plowing · sanding · salting · spreading · municipal · operator
Water's solid form
- frostThin ice coating
- snowFrozen crystalline precipitation
- sleetPartly frozen precipitation
- freezingExtremely cold
slippery · hazardous · winter · sub-zero · icy · treacherous · wintry · visibility
snowplow
Vehicle clearing frozen precipitation
routes · depot · council · plowing · sanding · salting · spreading · municipal · operator · cab
ice
Water's solid form
freezing · slippery · hazardous · winter · sub-zero · icy · treacherous · wintry · visibility · skidding
asphalt
Petroleum-based paving material
macadam · cobblestone · paving · bitumen · concrete · resurfacing · highway · street · tar · chipseal
salt
Sodium chloride compound
- truckstruck, pickup truck, dump truck, semi truck, semi-truck
- heavy equipmentexcavator, excavators, bulldozers, loader, backhoe
- snow removal vehiclessnowplow, plow truck, salt truck, snow blower, snow pusher
grittersnowplow
Vehicle clearing frozen precipitation
street sweeper · road sweeper · vacuum sweeper · snow plough · snow plow
- nitty grittyEssential practical details
- gritting one's teethForcing oneself onward despite difficulty
- gritted teeth
- gritting teethClamping jaw under stress
- gritted one's teethEndured something unpleasant determinedly
- gritty realismUnvarnished depiction of hardship
gritty, gritted, gritting, grittiness, grittier, grittiest, gritters