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fork-lift truck

British  

noun

  1. Sometimes shortened to: forklift.  a vehicle having two power-operated horizontal prongs that can be raised and lowered for loading, transporting, and unloading goods, esp goods that are stacked on wooden pallets

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A fork-lift truck tips a pallet into the press, releasing a sweet odour into the air.

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Elsewhere in the economy, efforts to address the chronic shortage of lorry drivers have borne fruit, but at the price of attracting people from other sectors, such as fork-lift truck drivers or warehouse workers, she says.

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The watchdog said that, for example, a test in driving a fork-lift truck could not be carried out online or by an estimation, so that type of assessment would have to wait.

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But the man behind the idea was deadly serious and over the next few years fork-lift truck driver Rab Harvey assembled a cast who made a string of increasingly ambitious films.

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Knegt was unavailable for this weekend’s European Championships as he was recovering from an injury sustained last month when his leg was caught between a doorframe and his fork-lift truck.

From Seattle Times