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  • Transporting the flying eagle to the Edinburgh exhibition would mean cranes and crates and a slow low-loader.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • He even made it sound easy, slicing the house into sections like a carcass, lifting them with a crane on to a low-loader and putting it all back together again somewhere else.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • He even made it sound easy, slicing the house into sections like a carcass, lifting them with a crane on to a low-loader and putting it all back together again somewhere else.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Transporting the flying eagle to the Edinburgh exhibition would mean cranes and crates and a slow low-loader.

    To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

  • 'Your pal Henry,' he told me, 'has himself arrived with a crane on a low-loader and brought the big top on about six vast lorries and he won't unload a thing without talking to you first.'

    Decider Francis, Dick 1993

  • They met a continuous taxi-rank of low-loader tractor-trailers, each of which would carry a tank or other armored fighting vehicle to the front lines.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

  • A spokesman for Dorset Police said: Circumstances suggest that while the vehicle was being off-loaded from a low-loader, a malfunction has occurred which resulted in the vehicle rolling backwards out of control.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The runaway Ranger vehicle was being taken off a low-loader at a business park when a malfunction caused it to roll backwards.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The runaway Ranger vehicle was being taken off a low-loader at a business park when a malfunction caused it to roll backwards.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The incident, involving a Fiat Punto and a Ford Transit low-loader vehicle, happened at about 1215 BST on Wednesday.

    BBC News - Home 2011

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  • a road or rail vehicle for heavy loads with a low platform for ease of access

    (Collins)

    August 3, 2009