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Definition truck

Etymology 1

Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek ?????? (trokhós).

Noun

truck (countable and uncountable, plural trucks)

1. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
2. The ball on top of a flagpole.
3. (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".
4. (countable, uncountable, US, Australia) A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (Britain) a lorry.
5. 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.
6. A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
7. 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.
8. A pantechnicon (removal van).
9. (Britain, rail transport) A flatbed railway car; a flatcar.
10. (US, rail transport) 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; a bogie.
11. 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.
12. (theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
13. Dirt or other messiness.

Verb

truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)

1. (intransitive) To drive a truck: Generally a truck driver's slang.
2. (transitive) To convey by truck.
3. (intransitive, US, slang) To travel or live contentedly. [1960s]
4. (intransitive, US, Canada, slang) To persist, to endure. [from 1960s]
5. (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
6. (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
7. (transitive, slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.

Etymology 2

From Middle English truken, troken, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-Germanic *truk?n? (“to fail, miss, lack”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew-, *derwu- (“to tear, wrap, reap”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split”). Cognate with Middle Low German troggelen (“to cheat, deceive, swindle”), Dutch troggelen (“to extort”), German dialectal truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”).

Verb

truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)

1. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
3. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To deceive; cheat; defraud.

Etymology 3

From dialectal truck, truk, trokk, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Norwegian dialectal trokka, trakka (“to stamp, trample, go to and fro”), Danish trykke (“to press, press down, crush, squeeze”), Swedish trycka. More at thrutch.

Verb

truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).

Etymology 4

Middle English trukien, from unrecorded Anglo-Norman and Old French words (attested in mediaeval Latin trocare, present Spanish trocar), of Unknown origin.

Verb

truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)

1. (transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.
2. (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
3. (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

Noun

truck (plural trucks)

1. (obsolete, often used in plural sense) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
2. (historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts]
3. (US) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
4. (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.

Adjective

truck (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.

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