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There was a last minute glitch at work yesterday

Time, 2pm, I finish work at 2.30pm.
As so often happens a truck pulls in with 10 steel plates for us to unload.
The problem was that each plate was individually glutted which meant 10 individual lifts. Which is crazy. So we decide to remove the gluts first.
The average weight of each plate would be 2 tons. So we begin removing the gluts with the help of forklifts. As we proceed down the stack the weights gets heavier until it is so great that the forklifts get stuck. We access a 5 ton forklift to help remove the forklifts.
During this process the forklift runs out of gas.
Anyway, the whole process of unloading a truck, if not individually glutted would take 20 minutes.
This load took 2 hours. The boss was not happy at the people who loaded the truck and rang them to let them know.
Hopefully this will not happen again. Instead of finishing work at 2.30 I knocked off at 4.15.
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GJOFJ3 · 61-69, M
Please define glutted
Gusman · 61-69, M
@GJOFJ3 Each industry has it's own terminology. Unless one is in that industry there is no need to know or even hear of those words.
GJOFJ3 · 61-69, M
@Gusman must be an Australian term
Gusman · 61-69, M
@GJOFJ3 From Middle English glotien, from Old French gloter, glotir (compare French engloutir (“to devour”), glouton (“glutton”)), from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“I swallow”). Akin to Russian глотать (glotatʹ, “to swallow”)[1].

Noun
glut (plural gluts)

An excess, too much.
Synonyms: excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus
Antonyms: lack, shortage
a glut of the market
That which is swallowed.
Something that fills up an opening.
Synonym: clog
A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
(mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing[2].
(bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course[3].
(architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
A block used for a fulcrum.

 
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