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
Sometimes shortened to: forklift
Examples of 'fork-lift truck' in a sentence
fork-lift truck
A fork-lift truck was moving one of the boxes towards the lorry.
Adam, Paul A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
She switched off the engine of the fork-lift truck and climbed down.