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Definition of Tip truck
1. Noun. Truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity.
Generic synonyms: Motortruck, Truck
Derivative terms: Dump, Tip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tip Truck
Literary usage of Tip truck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Witwatersrand Goldfields, Banket & Mining Practice: With an Appendix on by Samuel John Truscott (1907)
"The gauge of the track is usually 18 inches or 24 inches. FIG. 183.—Rails and
sleepers of an ordinary level track. Trucks.—The double-side "V"-tip truck ..."
2. Gauge Evidence: The History and Prospects of the Railway System, Illustrated by Samuel Sidney (1846)
"A tip truck Certainly, because they would take so much that we •MM* U*B could
not send direct; every place must either have a ..."
3. Professional Papers by the Corps of Royal Engineers ... Royal Engineers by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers (1884)
"For all embankment formation with the standard main-line gauge of rail an efficient
end tip-truck is the first consideration, and its best proportions are ..."
4. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"... 3ft. diameter ; two sludge forcing vessels, with their fittings and the various
distributing pipes for sludge and air ; a tip truck and tramway for the ..."
5. Professional Papers by the Corps of Royal Engineers ... Royal Engineers by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers (1892)
"... and the various distributing .. pipes for sludge and air; a tip-truck and
tramway for the removal of the pressed cake discharged from the machines. ..."
6. The Sanitation of Cities and Towns and the Agricultural Utilization of by Charles Williams Chancellor (1887)
"... three feet diameter; two sludge forcing vessels, with their fittings and the
various distributing pipes for sludge and air; a tip truck and ..."
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