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Truck   /trək/   Listen
noun
Truck  n.  
1.
A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
2.
A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles. "Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs."
3.
(Railroad Mach.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.
4.
(Naut.)
(a)
A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
(b)
A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
5.
A freight car. (Eng.)
6.
A frame on low wheels or rollers; used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
7.
A motorized vehicle larger than an automobile with a compartment in front for the driver, behind which is a separate compartment for freight; esp.
(a)
Such a vehicle with an inflexible body.
(b)
A vehicle with a short body and a support for attaching a trailer; also called a tractor 4.
(c)
The combination of tractor and trailer, also called a tractor-trailer (a form of articulated vehicle); it is a common form of truck, and is used primarily for hauling freight on a highway.
(d)
A tractor with more than one trailer attached in a series. In Australia, often referred to as a road train.


Truck  n.  
1.
Exchange of commodities; barter.
2.
Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. (Colloq.)
3.
The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; called also truck system.
Garden truck, vegetables raised for market. (Colloq.) (U. S.)
Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening. (Colloq. U. S.)


verb
Truck  v. t.  To transport on a truck or trucks.


Truck  v. t.  (past & past part. trucked; pres. part. trucking)  To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. "We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another."


Truck  v. i.  To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal. "A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them." "Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster." "To truck and higgle for a private good."





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"Truck" Quotes from Famous Books



... bottle of milk, and it began to get up steam and pretty soon the milk began to disappear, just like the water does when a fire engine couples on to a hydrant. Pa calls the baby "Old Number Two." I am "Number One," and if Pa had a hook and ladder truck and a hose cart, and a fire gong he would imagine he was chief engineer of the fire department. But the baby kicks on this milk wagon milk, and howls like a dog that's got lost. The doctor told Pa the ...
— The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy - Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 • George W. Peck
... Common an inquisitive general ordered the tarpaulin to be taken off the General Service wagon, and the first things which caught his eye were Sharpie's tennis racket and golf clubs. At Gara munitions of war had to be left behind to find room on the truck for his patent washstand. By the time he got to Palestine Johnnie Smith really could not compete with his belongings, and had to "borrow" a donkey to carry what could not possibly be left at Cox's Go-down—and it took eight months after the Armistice was signed before ...
— The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry - and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 • D. D. Ogilvie
... William Smith, conductor, ran into large brewery truck at So. E. cor. Sixth Ave. It is reported that Smith, to the neglect of his duty, was reading poetry from a book called 'Sonnets of de Heredia' at the time of the accident. Three Italians were slightly injured by the accident, and Ethelbert Pangwyn, an ...
— The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor • Wallace Irwin
... see how Thompson's clothes could have got water-soaked in a frozen swamp; and I did not see, either, what a decent man like Thompson could have been doing out there like a wolf, with wolves. I had more sense than to think he could have had any truck with Collins about our gold. I nodded back at the teamsters: ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones
... the last day before kermess away at Louvain, and the Brabantois was in haste to reach the fair and get a good place for his truck of brass wares. He was in fierce wrath, because Patrasche had been a strong and much-enduring animal, and because he himself had now the hard task of pushing his charette all the way to Louvain. But to stay to look after Patrasche never entered his thoughts; the beast was dying and useless, ...
— Stories By English Authors: Germany • Various


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