Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fork-lift truck
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And was he mown down by the fork-lift truck as a result?
▪ Large packages may be unloaded on to pallets and moved by fork-lift truck.
▪ The fork-lift truck was not fitted with either wing mirrors or a speedometer.
▪ The 20-stone fork-lift truck operator was much more suitable, as was a private detective.
▪ This aspect is significantly in advance of typical fork-lift truck operations on 2 and 3 shift working.
▪ What for example is the market value of a three-year old mainframe computer, or a seven-year old fork-lift truck?
▪ You then take two stout battens and insert them below the pallet like the arms of a fork-lift truck.
Usage examples of "fork-lift truck".
A large dark van had been drawn up outside the closed front of the Celebration Bar, a van with its rear doors opened wide and two workmen in brown overalls unloading a shipment of gin from it onto a pallet on a fork-lift truck.
My own muscles, after roughly twelve years of such exercise, would have rivalled a fork-lift truck, and Brian’.
A yellow fork-lift truck wandered by like a component in search of its machine.