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A truck for railroad rolling stock, consisting of two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame; -- called also pony truck. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Wet and dirty; begrimed. [ Obs. or Dial. ] Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a truck, usually with an open top, the carrying bopdy of which can be tilted so as to emptied its contents without handling.
Syn. -- dumper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind. “His heartstruck injuries.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ PJC ]

a. Horror-stricken; horrified. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as hook-and-ladder company, hook-and-ladder truck. [ PJC ]

a. (Photog.) Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Produced by the supposed influence of the moon. “Moonstruck madness.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Struck with a panic, or sudden fear; thrown into a state of intense fear; as, trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd. Burke.
Syn. -- panicky, petrified, terrified, frightened. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like planet-stricken men of yore
He trembles, smitten to the core
By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A roc. [ Obs. or prov. Eng. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Rucked p. pr. & vb. n. Rucking. ] [ Icel hrukkast to wrinkle, hrukka wrinkle, fold. ] To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. hrukka. Cf. Ruck, v. t. ] A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Dan. ruge to brood, to hatch. ] To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Gower. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sheep that rouketh in the fold. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Ruck. ] 1. A heap; a rick. [ Prov Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The ruck in society as a whole. Lond. Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Strike. [ 1913 Webster ]

Struck jury (Law), a special jury, composed of persons having special knowledge or qualifications, selected by striking from the panel of jurors a certain number for each party, leaving the number required by law to try the cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Strike. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sun-struck soldiers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. trochus an iron hoop, Gr. &unr_; a wheel, fr. &unr_; to run. See Trochee, and cf. Truckle, v. i. ] 1. A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A freight car. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ PJC ]

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v. t. To transport on a truck or trucks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trucked p. pr. & vb. n. trucking. ] [ OE. trukken, F. troquer; akin to Sp. & Pg. trocar; of uncertain origin. ] To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal. [ 1913 Webster ]

A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. troc. ] 1. Exchange of commodities; barter. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system. [ 1913 Webster ]

Garden truck, vegetables raised for market. [ Colloq. ] [ U. S. ] --
Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck. [ 1913 Webster ]

The truckage of perishing coin. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who trucks; a trafficker. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man having ever yet driven a saving bargain with this great trucker for souls. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of conveying goods on trucks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of truck a wheel; or from the kindred L. trochlea a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys. See Truck a wheel. ] A small wheel or caster. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From truckle in truckle-bed, in allusion to the fact that the truckle-bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master. ] To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. “Small, trucking states.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Truckled p. pr. & vb. n. Truckling ] To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed. “His standing bed and truckle-bed.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Truckmen 1. [ From Truck barter. ] One who does business in the way of barter or exchange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ From Truck a carriage. ] One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks. [ 1913 Webster ]