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truck¹
- /tɹʌk/ US, UK
- /tɹʊk/ Ireland, Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌk
Where it comes from
Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).
noun trucks
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage. “Put that cannon up once, and I'll answer for it that no Injin faces it. 'Twill be as good as a dozen sentinels,” answered Joel. “As for mountin’, I thought of that before I said a syllable about the crittur. There's the new truck-wheels in the court, all ready to hold it, and the carpenters can put
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- 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". But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?
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A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods; (in Malaysia/Singapore) a such vehicle with a closed or covered carriage.
We rented a truck big enough to carry the whole load in one trip.
Similar: lorry
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A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods.
Similar: goods wagon, freight wagon, goods carriage, freight carriage, goods truck, freight truck, freight car
- Any smaller wagon or cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books. Goods were therefore conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs.
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Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; 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.
Similar: bogie
- 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.
- A platform with wheels or casters.
- Dirt or other messiness. “Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?”
verb trucks · trucking · trucked
- To drive a truck. My father has been trucking for 20 years.
- To convey by truck. Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
- To travel, to proceed. I want to tell you a story from 'way back: / Truck on down and gig me, jack / In eighteen hundred and sixty-five / A hep cat started some jive / He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the Juneteenth Jamboree."
- To persist, to endure. Keep on trucking!
- To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- To fight or otherwise physically engage with. Both deputies were big, made of dense flesh and tough experience. . . . I wouldn't have wanted to truck with either one of them.
- To run over or through a tackler in American football.
truck²
- /tɹʌk/ US, UK
- /tɹʊk/ Ireland, Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌk
Where it comes from
From Middle English truken, troken, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *trokōn (“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 trucks · trucking · trucked · trock
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
truck³
- /tɹʌk/ US, UK
- /tɹʊk/ Ireland, Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌk
Where it comes from
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 trucks · trucking · trucked
- To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
truck⁴
- /tɹʌk/ US, UK
- /tɹʊk/ Ireland, Northern England
Rhymes with -ʌk
Where it comes from
From Middle English trukien, from unrecorded Anglo-Norman and Old French words, from Latin trocāre, from Frankish *trokan. Related to Etymology 2.
verb trucks · trucking · trucked
- To trade, exchange; barter. 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.
- To engage in commerce; to barter or deal. But while this businesse was in hand, Arrived one Captaine Argall, and Master Thomas Sedan, sent by Master Cornelius to truck with the Collony [...]
- To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
noun trucks
- Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter. There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck.
- 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].
- Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden). As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentio
- Social intercourse; dealings, relationships. "How can I decide?" said I. "You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome."
- Relevance, bearing. Many people involved in classical music today, themselves gay, see no reason why their sexuality should have any truck in their music.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: hand truck, motortruck, tractor-trailer, lorry, semi-trailer, flatbed, van, truckload, cartage, wagon, cab, minivan, cart, automobile, car, humvee
Translations
Every language
noun heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods — see also semi-trailer truck, pickup truck
| Español | camión, camioneta, troca, troque, truck (trok) |
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| 한국어 | 트럭 teureok |
| 日本語 | トラック torakku, 貨物自動車 kamotsu jidōsha |
| 中文 | 卡車 /卡车 kǎchē, 貨車 /货车 huòchē, 載貨汽車 /载货汽车 zàihuòqìchē |
| हिन्दी | ट्रक ṭrak, लारी lārī, माल गाड़ी māl gāṛī, लॉरी lŏrī |
| Kiswahili | lori |
| Français | camion |
| Deutsch | Lastwagen, LKW, Lastkraftwagen, Laster, Brummi, Lieferwagen |
| Italiano | autocarro, camion |
| Ελληνικά | φορτηγό fortigó, φορτάμαξα fortámaxa, νταλίκα ntalíka |
| Română | camion |
| Русский | грузови́к gruzovík, грузово́й автомоби́ль gruzovój avtomobílʹ, грузова́я маши́на gruzovája mašína, фу́ра fúra |
| Tiếng Việt | xe tải |
| العربية | شَاحِنَة šāḥina, كَمْيُون kamyūn, لُورِي lūrī |
| עברית | מַשָּׂאִית masa'ít |
verb drive a truck
| Português | conduzir um camião, dirigir um caminhão |
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| Français | conduire un camion |
| Deutsch | (mit dem Lastwagen) fahren, (im LKW) transportieren |
| Italiano | guidare un autocarro, guidare un camion |
| Ελληνικά | οδηγώ φορτηγό odigó fortigó |
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