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forklifting

forklifting is the present participle and gerund of forklift.

Meaning of forklift

Verb

forklift (third-person singular simple present forklifts, present participle forklifting, simple past and past participle forklifted)

  1. To move or stack with, or as if with, such a vehicle.
    • With bouncerly finesse, Frank forklifted his arms under Gerald's & plucked him off his stool, dragging him towards the back & the source of that incessant voice.2009, Garry Thomas Morse, Death in Vancouver, page 49

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Questions about forklifting

What is forklifting the present participle and gerund of?
Forklifting is the present participle and gerund of forklift.

Words near forklifting in the dictionary

  1. forklift trucks
  2. forkliftable
  3. forklifted
  4. forklifter
  5. forklifters
  6. forklifting
  7. forklifts
  8. forklike
  9. forkload
  10. forkloads
  11. forkmaker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forklifting (page history and authors); forklift (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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