bucket truck

noun

US

: a truck equipped with an extendable, hydraulic boom carrying a large bucket for raising workers to elevated, inaccessible areas

… to talk about the possibility of sharing the purchase of specialized highway equipment, like … bucket trucks for roadside tree trimming.

—David Detmold, Montague (Massachusetts) Reporter, 8 Oct. 2009

Word History

First Known Use

1960, in the meaning defined above

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