Truck

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  • intransitive verb. To have dealings or commerce; traffic.
  • intransitive verb. To exchange; barter.
  • intransitive verb. To peddle.
  • noun. The trading of goods or services without the exchange of money; barter.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Articles of commerce; trade goods.
  • noun. Garden produce raised for the market.
  • noun. Worthless goods; stuff or rubbish.
  • noun. Dealings; business.
  • noun. Any of various heavy motor vehicles designed for carrying or pulling loads.
  • noun. A hand truck.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A wheeled platform, sometimes equipped with a motor, for conveying loads in a warehouse or freight yard.
  • noun. A set of bookshelves mounted on four wheels or casters, used in libraries.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One of the swiveling frames of wheels under each end of a railroad car or trolley car.
  • noun. Either of the frames housing a pair of wheels on a skateboard or landboard.
  • noun. A small piece of wood placed at the top of a mast or flagpole, usually having holes through which halyards can be passed.
  • noun. A railroad freight car without a top.
  • intransitive verb. To transport by truck.
  • intransitive verb. To carry goods by truck.
  • intransitive verb. To drive a truck.
  • intransitive verb. To move or travel in a steady but easy manner.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To put in a truck; send or convey by truck: as, to truck cattle.
  • To drive or use a truck; transport goods by means of a truck.
  • To exchange; swap; barter; hence, to traffic; deal; trade by exchanging commodities; bargain; negotiate: followed with with or for (with a person, for a thing).
  • To exchange; give in exchange; barter; swap: as, to truck knives for gold-dust.
  • To peddle; hawk.
  • noun. A kind of game (see etymology). Compare troco.
  • noun. Exchange of commodities; barter. See truck system, below.
  • noun. Traffic; intercourse; dealing.
  • noun. The truck system.
  • noun. Commodities for barter or trade.
  • noun. The produce of a market-garden.
  • noun. A statute of 1870 (33 and 34 Vict., c. 105), also called the Truck Commission Act, which appointed a commission to inquire into the working of the act of 1831.
  • noun. A small wooden wheel not bound with iron; a cylinder.
  • noun. A wheeled vehicle, of which there are many kinds, used for moving or transporting burdens.
  • noun. A group of two, three, or more pairs of wheels in one frame, for supporting one end of a railway-car or locomotive; a car-truck.
  • noun. In gunnery, a circular piece of wood or metal, like a wheel, fixed on an axletree, for moving ordnance. See casemate-truck.
  • noun. A circular piece of wood fixed on the head of each of a vessel's highest masts, and having small sheave-holes in it through which signal-halyards are rove.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter.
  • intransitive verb. To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.
  • noun. A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
  • noun. A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
  • noun. A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
  • noun. A freight car.
  • noun. A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
  • Word Usage
    "Yes pickup truck is code for "I help friends move into new houses more than most people do"."
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    Buck  Canuck  Chuck  Duck  Gluck  
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    aircraft  automobile  boat  box  bus  
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    trucked  trucking  trucks