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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fire engine equipped with extension ladders and hooked poles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A firefighting truck equipped with a ladder extendable to great length, for access to the upper stories of buildings; it also carries other firefighting equipment; called also
ladder truck .
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