Definition of "forklift" []

• A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load to be lifted and moved. (noun)
• To move or stack by use of a vehicle with a power-operated pronged platform. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Remember when I first went to White's they didn't have what you call a forklift, but today they've got these big lifts that can do as much work in fifteen minutes as a half dozen men can do all day."
• "The forklift is the device of choice for loading pallets from containers into the hatches of a cruise ship."
• "* Note the guy driving the forklift is my dad's friend Andy."