truck

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. 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 ]