bucket truck

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: 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

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