trucknoun詞源 1/tɹʌk/

• 1

  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 hinder part to the whull, in an hour or two.”
• 2

  The ball on top of a flagpole.

• 3

  nauticaltransportOn 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?
• 4

  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.
  • A line of fifty trucks from the Zenith Steel and Machinery Company was attacked by strikers-rushing out from the sidewalk, pulling drivers from the seats, smashing carburetors and commutators, while telephone girls cheered from the walk, and small boys heaved bricks.
• 5

  rail-transportrailwaystransportA railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods.

• 6

  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.
• 7

  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.

• 8

  entertainmentlifestyletheaterA platform with wheels or casters.

truckverb詞源 1/tɹʌk/

• 1

  To drive a truck.

  • My father has been trucking for 20 years.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  slangTo 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.
• 4

  slangTo 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[…]
• 5

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

• 6

  slangTo 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.
• 7

  slangTo run over or through a tackler in American football.

truckverb詞源 2/tɹʌk/

• 1

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

• 2

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

• 3

  dialectalTo deceive; cheat; defraud.

truckverb詞源 3/tɹʌk/

• 1

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

truckverb詞源 4/tɹʌk/

• 1

  dialectalTo 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.
• 2

  dialectalTo 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 [...]
• 3

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

trucknoun詞源 4/tɹʌk/

• 1

  obsoletedialectalSmall, 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.
  • It happened in this way, on a day when I was indulging in a particularly greenery-yallery fit of gloom. Norah rushed into my room. I think I was mooning over some old papers, or letters, or ribbons, or some such truck in the charming, knife-turning way that women have when they are blue.
• 2

  historicaldialectalThe 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

  dialectalGarden 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 mentioned) is attempted.
  • "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.
• 4

  dialectalSocial 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."
• 5

  dialectalRelevance, bearing.

  • Many people involved in classical music today, themselves gay, see no reason why their sexuality should have any truck in their music.
  • For this reason, Washington is a wonderful and proven humbler of the Texan conceit: Washington isn't a state, and yet it is metaphorically bigger than Texas. It's where Texas learns that not everyone is in love with Texas. (Where yer from orig'nally has no truck here.)

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• railroad truck or wheel truck