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Forklift

//ˈfɔɹklɪft// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved.

    "The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves."

  2. 2
    a small industrial vehicle with a power operated forked platform in front that can be inserted under loads to lift and move them wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To move or stack with, or as if with, such a vehicle.

    "With bouncerly finesse, Frank forklifted his arms under Gerald's & plucked him off his stool, dragging him towards the back & the source of that incessant voice."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From fork + lift.

Etymology 2

From fork + lift.

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