Truck
Truck , noun
[Latin trochus an iron hoop, Greek {not transcribed} a wheel, from {not transcribed} to run. See Trochee, and compare Truckle, v. i.]
1.
(Ord.) 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 Machinery) 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.
(a) (Nautical) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
(b)
(Nautical) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
5.
A freight car. [English]
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;
(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.
(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 , transitive verb
To transport on a truck or trucks.
Truck , transitive verb
[Old English trukken,French troquer; akin to Sp. & Portuguese trocar; of uncertain origin.]
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 , intransitive verb
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.
Truck , noun
[Compare French troc.]
1.
Exchange of commodities; barter. — Hakluyt
2.
Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. [Colloquial]
3.
The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.