Truck (?), n. [L. trochus an iron
hoop, Gr. &?; a wheel, fr. &?; 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.
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. (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.
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.
5. A freight car. [Eng.]
6. A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for
various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
Truck, v. t. To transport on a truck or
trucks.
Truck, 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.
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.
Truck, v. i. To exchange commodities; to
barter; to trade; to deal.
A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of
trucking with them. Palfrey.
Despotism itself is obliged to truck and
huckster. Burke.
To truck and higgle for a private good.
Emerson.
Truck (?), n. [Cf. F. 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. [Colloq.]
3. The practice of paying wages in goods instead of
money; -- called also truck system.
Garden truck, vegetables raised for market.
[Colloq.] [U. S.] -- Truck farming, raising vegetables
for market: market gardening. [Colloq. U. S.]
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