truck

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.

2. 2

   The ball on top of a flagpole.

3. 3

   On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top…

   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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   1. 4

      A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to…

      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.
      • That's why driving truck became more than a job for many in the industry. Driving truck was a lifestyle.
   2. 5

      A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods.

   3. 6

      Any smaller wagon or cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or…

      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.
      • He closed the door, locked it, and took out the key in readiness. When Mr Lidmarsh returned with the water he found Carrados seated on a market truck.
   4. 7

      Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck

      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.

   5. 8

      The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of…

      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.

   6. 9

      A platform with wheels or casters.

   7. 10

      Dirt or other messiness.

      • “Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?”
   8. 11

      To drive a truck.

      • My father has been trucking for 20 years.
   9. 12

      To convey by truck.

      • Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
      • Colson was to truck the 'plane to Alice Springs, where it would be trained to Adelaide for repairs.
   10. 13

       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."
       • I brought them around again, hard, and some fluff hit me in the face, cool and wet. . .and I laughed and trucked on down, a mad. fiddler dancing to my own music, happy and alone in my private white world.
       • Instead, when relatives heard that the right ship had docked, they trucked over to Ellis Island and waited desperately by the Kissing Post.
   11. 14

       To persist, to endure.

       • Keep on trucking!
       • It has been five months since I left Mt. Diablo , and I'm still trucking along gaining slowly and I'm just a few pounds from my goal healthy weight. I'm the happiest I've been in my life because through my experiences with anorexia I[…]
       • “What's ol' Harrison up to these days, Larry?” Grandpa asked. “Oh, he's still trucking along,” Uncle Larry replied.
   12. 15

       To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.

   13. 16

       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.
   14. 17

       To run over or through a tackler in American football.

   15. 18

       To fail

       To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.

   16. 19

       To give in

       To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.

   17. 20

       To deceive

       To deceive; cheat; defraud.

   18. 21

       To tread (down)

       To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).

   19. 22

       To trade, exchange

       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.
   20. 23

       To engage in commerce

       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 [...]
   21. 24

       To have dealings or social relationships with

       To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

   22. 25

       Small, humble items

       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.
   23. 26

       The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned…

       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].

   24. 27

       Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).

       • "Wid dat, Brer Rabbit 'low dat Mr. Man done been had 'im hired fer ter take keer er his truck patch, an' keep out de minks, de mush-rats an' de weasels.
   25. 28

       Social intercourse

       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."
   26. 29

       Relevance, bearing.

       • Many people involved in classical music today, themselves gay, see no reason why their sexuality should have any truck in their music.

The neighborhood

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• neighborgun-carriage
• neighborsemi
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• neighborrig
• neighbormonster truck
• neighboratroke
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