nutting truck

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English

Etymology

So named because they were originally manufactured by the Nutting Truck Company, founded by Elijah Nutting.

Pronunciation

Noun

nutting truck (plural nutting trucks)

  1. (US, United States Postal Service terminology) A flat cart with four wheels, one in the center or corner of each side, upon which trays of mail may be stacked for transport.
    • 1973, in a Government Employee Relations Report (in the issues 484-509; page 1-461), page 49:
      The slip read: "I asked Charles Hall to push a nutting truck from the dumping table area to the paper case area."
    • 2006, Ken Culbreth, The Railway Mail Clerk and the Highway Post Office, →ISBN, page 123:
      When I tried to show him how thin the pieces were and that I had made good progress, he just picked up his clip board and motioned for me to get a big nutting truck and to follow him.
    • 2012, Sandy Kay, Awakening Hearts, →ISBN, page 89:
      She looked at the stacks of flats already sitting on the nutting truck.
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