front-end loader

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noun

a loader having a shovel or bucket at the end of an articulated arm located at the front of the vehicle.

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Also called front-loader.

Origin of front-end loader

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby front-end loader

front-drive, Frontenac, Frontenac et Palluau, front-end, front-end load, front-end loader, front-end processor, frontenis, fronter, front foot, front four

How to use front-end loader in a sentence

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Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
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Off went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.
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