'Truck' definitions:

Definition of 'truck'

(from WordNet)
noun
An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling [syn: truck, motortruck]
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 [syn: hand truck, truck]
verb
Convey (goods etc.) by truck; "truck fresh vegetables across the mountains"

Definition of 'Truck'

From: GCIDE
  • Truck \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. [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]

Definition of 'Truck'

From: GCIDE
  • Truck \Truck\, n. [Cf. F. troc.]
  • 1. Exchange of commodities; barter. --Hakluyt. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system. [1913 Webster]
  • Garden truck, vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U. S.]
  • Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening. [Colloq. U. S.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Truck'

From: GCIDE
  • Truck \Truck\, v. t. To transport on a truck or trucks. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Truck'

From: GCIDE
  • Truck \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. [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]

Definition of 'Truck'

From: GCIDE
  • Truck \Truck\, 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]

Definition of 'truck'

From: GCIDE
  • Lorrie \Lor"rie\, Lorry \Lor"ry\, n.; pl. Lorries. [Prob. from lurry to pull or lug.]
  • 1. A small cart or wagon moving on rails, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A motorized wheeled land vehicle, esp. a large one, with a cab for the driver and a separate rear compartment for transporting freight; called truck in the U. S. [Brit.]
  • Syn: camion. [PJC]
  • 3. a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides. [WordNet sense 1] [WordNet 1.5]

Synonyms of 'truck'

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