Trek
Trek , intransitive verb
[Dutch trekken. See Track, n.]
1.
To draw or haul a load, as oxen. [South Africa]
2.
To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. [Chiefly South Africa]
One of the motives which induced the Boers of 1836 to trek out of the Colony.
Trek , noun
[D. Compare Track, n.]
The act of trekking; a drawing or a traveling; a journey; a migration. [Chiefly South Africa]
To the north a trek was projected, and some years later was nearly carried out, for the occupation of the Mashonaland.
Collocations (1)
Great Trek , the great emigration of Boers from Cape Colony which began in 1836, and resulted in the founding of the South African Republic and Orange Free State.