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fork-lift truck

British

noun

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.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2023

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.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2019

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