"forklift" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun used to refer to a type of machine which is used for lifting and moving heavy loads. For example, "The warehouse workers use a forklift to move the crates of supplies around."
A forklift truck then appears – this will eventually support the dismembered joint.
At 8am last Tuesday a forklift truck appeared, carrying a team of workmen with angle grinders.
But the process takes a long time; at one point the forklift driver looks as if he's fallen asleep.
A raised loading bay allows shipments, neatly stacked on palates, to be transferred by forklift truck into waiting lorries.
The forklift operator the only one allowed into the lane under Israeli security rules sighs, bends down and begins shovelling shrimps and dirt back into the boxes.The problem is that everything is interconnected.
Even though word of the grand projects dotted around the north-east is attracting workers from all over the country, the demand is such that Odebrecht is training everyone from carpenters and bricklayers to truck drivers and forklift operators itself.
Pop music blares from overhead speakers as forklift trucks rush around with components.
Banda Aceh, the regional capital, has only one airstrip, and for the first days after the disaster, it had only one functioning forklift truck.
It costs the seven of them $1,080 a month: about two-thirds of their cash income, most of which comes from Mr Marroquín's job as a forklift driver.
Heli exports forklift trucks to over 40 countries.
A fleet of them might thus be brought to bear simultaneously on a task which can now be done by only one forklift at a time such as unloading a lorry or a shipping container.
