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Definition of Truck

1. Noun. An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling.

2. Verb. Convey (goods etc.) by truck. "Truck fresh vegetables across the mountains"

3. Noun. A handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects.

Definition of Truck

1. n. A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.

2. v. t. To transport on a truck or trucks.

3. v. t. To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.

4. v. i. To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.

5. n. Exchange of commodities; barter.

Definition of Truck

1. Verb. (intransitive now chiefly dialectal) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive now chiefly dialectal) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive now chiefly dialectal) To deceive; cheat; defraud. ¹

4. Noun. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage ¹

5. Noun. The ball on top of a flagpole ¹

6. Noun. (nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a ''truck'' on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck". ¹

7. Noun. (countable uncountable)(American English) A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (British) a lorry ¹

8. Noun. Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods ¹

9. Noun. A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow ¹

10. Noun. A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books ¹

11. Noun. A pantechnicon (removal van) ¹

12. Noun. (British) A flatbed railway car ¹

13. Noun. A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track. The axle on many types of railway car is not attached to the truck and relies on gravity to remain within the truck's brackets (on the truck's base) that hold the axle in place ¹

14. Noun. The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between. ¹

15. Noun. (theatre) A platform with wheels or casters ¹

16. Noun. dirt or other messiness ¹

17. Verb. (intransitive) To drive a truck ¹

18. Verb. (transitive) To convey by truck ¹

19. Verb. (intransitive US slang 1960s) To travel or live contentedly ¹

20. Verb. (intransitive US slang 1960s) To persist, to endure ¹

21. Verb. (intransitive film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject ¹

22. Verb. (transitive) (slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football ¹

23. Verb. (transitive UK dialectal Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down). ¹

24. Verb. (transitive) To trade, exchange; barter ¹

25. Verb. (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal ¹

26. Verb. (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with ¹

27. Noun. (obsolete) ''(often used in plural sense)'' Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter ¹

28. Noun. (American English) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden) ¹

29. Noun. (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships ¹

30. Adjective. Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Truck

1. to transport by truck (an automotive vehicle designed to carry loads) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Truck

1. 1. A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically, 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." (Macaulay) 3. 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 small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through. A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes. 5. A freight car. 6. A frame on low wheels or rollers; used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies. Truck, n. 1. Barter. 2. Commodidites for barter or fro small trade. 3. Asslociation, interaction, or connection, as in "I'll have no truck with the likes of them." 4. Payment of wages in goods, rahther than casj. 5. Vegetable grown for market, as in truck farm. 6. Small articles of little value. [All from MW10. No comparable definitions in W1913!. Origin: L. Trochus an iron hoop, Gr. A wheel, fr. To run. See Trochee, and cf. Truckle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Truck

trucage trucages truce trucebreaker trucebreakers truced truceless truces truchman truchmans

truchmen trucial trucidation trucidations trucing truck-driver truck bed truck dealer truck driver truck farm

truck farming truck garden truck gardens truck in truck out truck stop truck traffic truckable truckage

Literary usage of Truck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Municipal corporations <8=>706(4)—Testimony as to custom of transporting mower blades Inadmissible on Issue of negligence in parking truck with protruding ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1862 School larnin is mighty poor truck to put into a feller's head, ... 1902 Sally's a-goin to fry some o' this truck fer me, an' I'm as hungry as a bear. ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Motor truck Industry. Marvelous growth of the motor truck industry. 11. Sei. ... Motor truck subsidies. Motor vehicles and transportation in the ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"MOTOR truck, a heavy type of automobile developed for carrying truck or freight. ... For a few years truck-builders gave their attention mainly to bodies, ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"truck-growing has been distinguished from market-gardening proper as the growing ... truck crops demand heavy manuring. Manuring land for fall spinach after ..."

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