truck
Speech parts
1. truck - Noun
2. truck - Verb
Meaning
A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.
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.
A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
A freight car.
A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
To transport on a truck or trucks.
To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.
To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.
Exchange of commodities; barter.
Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.
The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.
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I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.
Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.
You see my adjutant made rather a silly mistake. He hadn't had much truck with boots before and the silly fellow thought they were extra rations. My men ate the whole bag of tricks last night.