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Truck for carrying loads in warehouse
Answer for the clue "Truck for carrying loads in warehouse ", 8 letters:
forklift
Alternative clues for the word forklift
Word definitions for forklift in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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 vb. to move or stack using such a vehicle
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A forklift (also called a lift truck , a fork truck , or a forklift truck ) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th century by various companies including the transmission ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fork-lift , by 1953, short for fork-lift truck (1946), from fork (n.) + lift (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small industrial vehicle with a power operated forked platform in front that can can be inserted under loads to lift and move them
Usage examples of forklift.
A man wheeled by on a forklift, ignoring Andi until she stepped in his way to flag him down.
The men yanked it from the vehicle and secured it just as Bengazi moved the forklift to the edge.
The forklift lurched forward, the two men carrying the RPGS clinging to the sides, as Bengazi gunned the powerful engine.
Without warning, the butted front end of the forklift slammed into what Bengazi knew to be the first set of double doors.
She just sat there, a renegade donkey herself, living with Livers, watching the insane forklift lift and transport and stack empty air while damaged cones rolled past and clattered into corners.
I could just see Little Pete Dwyer careening around the ramp devoid of motor skills, around airplanes, in a forklift or a loader.
Continental had already cracked two pylons using forklifts, and they could have told American the procedure was dangerous.
Robot forklifts moved mountains of colored plastic containers and dumped them on wide, massive conveyors that carried them away and out of sight.
Despite the range of computerized equipment on the dock, from overhead-tracking forklifts that could shift multi-ton reactor cores to tweezerlike micromanipulators capable of extracting the black specks of monocloned seed stock from radiation-resistant transport gel, there was still a need for the kind of sheer muscle mass that could break open a wooden packing crate from one of the low-tech trading worlds.
The yellow forklift was now blocking the lane, parked beside the shed with a crated fifteen-foot tree hoisted on the forks.
Immediately the stevedore contingent and several of the large flatbeds, plus a forklift which had been "acquired," surrounded the KDL.
Jerry Christian, his flight engineer, had been standing in the distance talking to a forklift driver.
As he watched, a forklift truck trundled out of the open doors of number three hangar.
The automatic forklift truck was busily piling cans onto the belt and digging fresh ones out of the ceiling-high piles.
When he, Big Joe, and Big Joe's brother emptied the containers into several large metal bins, they'd close the hatches on the bins to conceal their contents and use a forklift truck to place the bins in a sling, which would hoist them onto a barge.