truckn.1
/trʌk/, U.S. /trək/ 1.
a. The action or practice of trucking; trading by exchange of commodities; barter. Often in truck (for, †of), by truck for.
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society > trade and finance > barter > [noun]
formanginga1300
nifferc1400
barteringc1440
roring1440
commutation1496
scorsing1509
chopping and changing1548
exchange1553
truck1553
block1568
bartery1570
chopping1581
scorse1590
barter1592
trucking1594
swap1625
truckage1641
truck trade1740
handling1850
1364 Vintner's Co. Charter in Pat. Roll 38 Edw. III, m. 44 (P.R.O.) Si mettent pris sur les vins par Truke ou par eschaunges.]
1553 S. Cabot in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 261 No commutation or trucke to be made by any of the pettie Marchants, without the assent abouesaid.
1567 Hawkins Let. to Eliz. 16 Sept. (P.R.O.: St. Pap. Dom. XLIV. 7) To..sell them [negroes] in the West Indyes in trvcke of golde peirels and Esmeraldes.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes x. i. 1674 The Moores gave them in trucke for them againe black Moores.
1667 in Magens Insurances (1755) II. 437 If..any..shall buy, or get to themselves by Truck, or any other way, such Ship or Goods.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 173/2 Their trade is managed by truck, or bartering one commodity for another.
1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 609 The mind has organs and functions..ranging beyond the things of avoirdupois and truck.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1741 tr. Marquis d'Argens Chinese Lett. xxxix. 300 There's a Place at Moscow for the Truck and Barter of Images, and the Money given is in Proportion to the Size of the Figure.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 741 Precedence went in truck, And he was competent whose purse was so.
1796 M. Robinson Angelina II. 128 My girl has money, my Lord has a title;—'tis a sort of truck, Sir Clifford.
c. with a and plural (a) A traffic, trade. (b) An act of trading; a bargain or deal.
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society > trade and finance > [noun] > trade in a type of commodity
trade1622
truck1638
marketa1653
society > trade and finance > bargaining > [noun] > a bargain or deal
bargainc1386
cofe1471
cope1546
truck1638
dicker1818
deal1837
1638 in T. N. Brushfield Financial Diary Citizen of Exeter (1901) 16 For 30 yards Canvas..for wch I set nothing bec[ause] taken in a truck.
1642 A. J. Tasman Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1694) i. 134 They indeavoured to begin a Truck or Merchandize with the yacht.
1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Seneca's Morals: Of Benefits xii. 86 This for That, is rather a Truck than a Benefit.
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 14 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1433 Utility..established a truck of the little agré ments and pleasures of life.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 417/1 There's Paddy in the truck too; he makes a good thing.
2. The payment of wages otherwise than in money; the system or practice of such payment, the truck system n. at Compounds 1a; in quots. 1879, 1911, goods supplied in lieu of wages.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > other than in money
provision pay1683
biberage1687
truck1743
scrip1874
1743 Irish Act 17 Geo. II c. 8 §6 In case any person or persons..shall pay any such artificer, workman, servant or labourer..their wages, or other price agreed on, or any part thereof, either in goods or by way of truck, or in any other manner than in ready money.
1766 Museum Rusticum 6 420 The workmen alledged, that the clothiers..had..obliged them to take goods in truck, at exorbitant prices.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 12/2 Wages are largely paid in truck, in defiance of the law.
1886 Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 40 §1 The provisions of the Acts relating to truck.
1911 Daily News 13 Oct. 3 She pays 2s. 9d. as well as a small amount of ‘truck’, worth a few pence, for getting the whole of her washing done by a washerwoman.
3.
a. ‘Traffic’, intercourse, communication, dealings. Now usually in negative contexts: to have no truck with (a person or thing), etc.
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society > society and the community > social relations > [noun]
conversationc1340
dolea1400
repairc1425
fellowshipc1450
frequentation?1520
communion1529
society1531
commerce1537
commercement1537
society1538
trade1555
intercourse1557
company1576
intercommunication1586
interdeal1591
entertain1602
consort1607
entregent1607
quarter1608
commercing1610
converse1610
trucka1625
congress1628
socialty1638
frequency1642
socialitya1649
socialness1727
intercommuniona1761
social life1812
dialogue1890
discourse1963
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > fact or action of being concerned with
meddlingc1390
implicationc1430
mellingc1440
intermeddling1531
participation1582
mashing1607
trucka1625
concern1643
involvedness1654
interest1660
involvement1706
business1759
immixture1859
involution1886
a piece (also share) of the action1938
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > have nothing to do with
to avoid (also shun, etc.) like the plague1699
to steer clear of1723
I wouldn't touch it (also him, her, etc.) with a ten-foot (also forty-foot) pole1838
to have no truck with1866
to leave or let severely alone1880
I wouldn't touch him (or it) with (the end of) a bargepole1890
ice1932
a1625 J. Fletcher Chances ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaa4/1 Harke ye Frederick, What truck betwixt my Infant?
1790 D. Morison Poems 106 Nor does our blinded master see The trocks between the Clerk and she.
a1807 J. Skinner Amusem. Leisure Hours (1809) 96 Ye and I have had a trock This forty year.
1866 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 9 400/1 [In Suffolk] A man who has left off courting a girl, says that he has ‘no more truck along o'har’.
1894 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 748 You would think he is a Christian to see the troke there is between that beast and my man.
1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xxvi. 259 Fust time in 'er life..she's ever 'ad any truck with any of them sort.
1929 H. Walpole Hans Frost iii. iii. 333 I don't want to have any truck with the world at all.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xi. 112 Mebbe your Ma's right. Mebbe you hadn't ought to have no truck with the Forresters.
1948 Mind 57 17 Others will have no truck with images, and declare that when we remember we are directly apprehending the past occurrence.
1952 J. L. Waten Alien Son 97 She would have no truck with so-called midwives who practised spells and incantations.
1960 ‘J. Bonett’ & ‘E. Bonett’ No Grave for Lady i. 13 Wasn't there a story going about..that Lotte Liselotte was having truck with him?
1975 S. Heaney North 58 We tremble near the flames but want no truck With the actual firing.
b. plural. Small matters of business or work; odd jobs, errands, chores. Scottish dialect.
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society > occupation and work > duties > [noun] > piece of work or task > small or domestic > chores
charec1325
trucks1808
chore1820
1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Troke Troques, or trockies, pl. Small pieces of business that require a good deal of stirring.
1894 ‘I. Maclaren’ Lachlan Campbell in Beside Bonnie Brier Bush iii A'll come for ye as sune as a' get..ma little trokes feenished.
4. † a. Commodities for barter. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > goods for bartering
truck1555
trade goods1631
barterya1638
barter1713
1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 281v The Tartars..bringe none other wares then truckes or droues of swyfte runnynge horses and clokes made of whyte feltes.
1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 233 The[y] would not geve 2s. a pece nether in money nor truck.
1693 J. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 792 They must carry all sort of Truck that trade thither, having one Commodity to pass off another.
1770 J. Banks Jrnl. 17 Sept. (1962) II. 150 The boat with some truck should go ashore..in hopes to purchase some trifling refreshments for the sick.
b. Small articles of a miscellaneous character; sundries; stuff; chiefly in depreciative use: odds and ends; things of little value; trash, rubbish. (Rarely plural) Also figurative.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth > collectively
truck1785
frippery1803
manavilins1841
1785 A. Shirrefs Poems (1790) 250 Scales, compasses, and ither trocks.
1792 in Hist. Broughton Place U.P. Ch. (1872) 20 Your Priests wear bands an' pouther'd hair, An' sick vain troke.
1834 J. Hall Kentucky I. 221 Several bouncing girls..were clearing away the truck of the evening meal.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxx. 360 Spent all his time in the bush, and along the beach, picking up flowers and shells, and such truck.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb i. 9 Is their trock a' in noo, I won'er?
1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 67 What cooking utensils and other ‘truck’ we thought we needed.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous i I can't smoke the truck the steward sells.
c. U.S. Market-garden produce; hence as a general term for culinary vegetables.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > market garden produce
market truck1784
truck1784
truck crop1895
1784 Maryland Jrnl. 14 Dec. (advt.) A large Room..for his Customers to lodge in, and deposit their Market-truck.
1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 264 Truck..Culinary vegetables.
1870 S. Lanier Nine from eight 2 I was drivin' my two-mule waggin, With a lot of truck for sale.
1885 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 330/1 He is laying out the back land in truck or early vegetables.
1902 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 498/1 ‘Truck’ means briefly such things as can be grown for the Northern markets—cucumbers, cabbages, sweet potatoes, strawberries, tomatoes, &c.
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C1. attributive and in other combinations.
a. (In sense 2.)
truck act n.
truck law n.
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1914 Daily News 24 Mar. 6 For practical purposes the present Truck Laws are a dead letter.
truck principle n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > wage structures and scales > [noun] > wage-system > specific
tut1800
tommy system1829
truck system1830
truck principle1837
time wage1840
time payment1852
trip system1894
tot system1926
1837 S. Smith 2nd Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 285/1 Recommending the truck principle to the Bishops, and offering to pay them in hassocks, cassocks, aprons, shovel-hats [etc.].
truck system n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > wage structures and scales > [noun] > wage-system > specific
tut1800
tommy system1829
truck system1830
truck principle1837
time wage1840
time payment1852
trip system1894
tot system1926
1830 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 22 May 664 In the iron country..the truck or tommy system generally prevails.
1869 J. E. T. Rogers in A. Smith Inq. Wealth Nations (new ed.) I. i. x. 150 (note) The truck system..is now uniformly illegal.
b. (In sense 4c.)
truck-farm n.
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1866 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 9 323/1 A truck garden, a truck farm, is a market-garden or farm.
1969 Observer 19 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 8/3 It was a truck farm, which you call a market-garden, don't you, or a nursery?
1976 New Yorker 17 May 34/1 Sold their..duplex and moved to a coöperative truck farm.
truck-farmer n.
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1877 A. Douai Better Times (1884) 7 The truck-farmers from Virginia down to Florida.
1979 Amer. Poetry Rev. Mar. 24/1 A few children of Japanese truck farmers and some of us from Youngstown and White Center helped preserve what I snobbishly prefer to think of as peasant vitality.
truck-farming n.
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1885 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 331/1 The river-bluffs are admirably suited for truck-farming.
1891 N.Y. Weekly Witness 22 Apr. 2/2 A distinction is made between truck-farming and what is known as market-gardening... Truck-farming is defined as the production of green vegetables on tracts remote from market.
1973 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lx. 10 Raised and lives in Williston, an unincorporated community..mainly devoted to fishing, tugboating, and truck farming.
truck-garden n.
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1866Truck garden [see truck-farm n.].
1868 B. J. Lossing Hudson (new ed.) 394 Numerous ‘truck’ gardens, from which the city draws vegetable supplies.
truck-gardener n.
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1889 L. H. Bailey (title) The Horticulturist's Rule-Book. A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit-Growers, Truck-Gardeners, Florists, and Others.
truck-gardening n.
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1890 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 12 Apr. 2/4 During their two years' residence they have done all of their own work and truck-gardening.
truck-patch n.
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1829 T. Flint George Mason iii. 33 A garden, or, as the people call it, a truck patch, was also prepared.
truck-produce n.
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1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 145 The proximity of the camp would ensure them a ready market for all ‘truck’ produce.
truck trade n.
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society > trade and finance > barter > [noun]
formanginga1300
nifferc1400
barteringc1440
roring1440
commutation1496
scorsing1509
chopping and changing1548
exchange1553
truck1553
block1568
bartery1570
chopping1581
scorse1590
barter1592
trucking1594
swap1625
truckage1641
truck trade1740
handling1850
1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 4 All Commerce naturally is a Truck Trade exchanging Commodities which we can spare (or their Value) for Goods we are in want of.
1794 Gaz. U.S.A. (Philadelphia) 6 Jan. It is a truck trade that is proposed.
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truck crop n. U.S. = sense 4c.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > market garden produce
market truck1784
truck1784
truck crop1895
1895 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1894 133 Soils having over 10 or 12 per cent of clay are too heavy and too retentive of moisture for the early truck crops.
1937 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Feb. 7/8 Payments for truck-crop growers have been increased.
1972 R. G. Kazmann Mod. Hydrol. (ed. 2) iv. 109 Higher-valued crops such as truck crops are valuable enough to justify far more than this expenditure.
truck-economy n. see quot.
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society > trade and finance > barter > [noun] > barter economy
truck-economy1889
1889 R. T. Ely Introd. Polit. Econ. i. vii. 50 Truck-economy is the term used to denote the period which precedes the use of money.
truck-house n. in North America, a store-house for trading with Indians; also, any storage building ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > storehouse > warehouse
warehouse1349
packhousec1483
godown1588
bankshallc1615
serai1619
seraglio1628
magazine house1645
truck-house1731
packing house1796
1731 Massachusetts Stat. 9 Nov. The Indians..have their dependance on this government for supplies..several truck-houses having been erected..for that purpose.
1753 W. Douglass Brit. Settlem. N. Amer. 228 Some place of Strength, Security, or Retreat for our Indian traders under the name of a Trading or Truck-House.
truck-knight n. see quots.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes
Jack-gentleman1550
truck-knight1625
court-card1699
parvenu1787
cocktail1839
gent1843
shoneena1849
snob1848
shoddyite1865
got-up1881
shoddy1904
1625 F. Markham Bk. Honour ii. viii. 69 Dunghill, or Truck-Knights, whose Honors haue no other assent or Scale to rise by, but onely their wealth and purchase, trucking and bargaining with gold or other marchandise.
truck-man n. see quots.
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1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Truckman, 1. One who does business in the way of barter and exchange.
truck-master n. (a) one who is in charge of a truck-house; (b) an employer who uses the truck system.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > master of trading post in North America
truck-master1694
postmaster1829
booshway1850
society > occupation and work > worker > employer > [noun] > employer paying in goods
truck-master1906
1694 Massachusetts Stat. 13 June That all trade with the said Eastern Indians be managed and carried on at the charge of and with the public stock..by suitable truck masters.
1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Province Massachusets-Bay, 1691–1750 iii. 318 The charge of trading houses, truckmasters, garrisons, and a vessel employed in transporting goods.
1906 Daily Chron. 22 June 5/2 The wool was given out, and the payment in tea or groceries for the manufactured article was made from the shop of a truck master.
truck-shop n. a shop at which vouchers given instead of wages may be exchanged for goods, a tommy-shop.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop where vouchers may be used
tommy shop1822
Tommy1845
truck-shop1845
truck-store1886
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil II. iii. i. 11 (note) The Butty generally keeps a Tommy or Truck shop and pays the wages of his labourers in goods.
truck-store n. = truck-shop n.; also, a greengrocery shop (U.S. regional).
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop where vouchers may be used
tommy shop1822
Tommy1845
truck-shop1845
truck-store1886
1886 Appletons' Ann. Cycl. 1885 84/1 In Liége..employers compelled the labourers to purchase supplies from their Truck stores, at prices from 50 to 90 per cent. above..retail rates.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
truckn.2
/trʌk/, U.S. /trək/ 1. A small solid wooden wheel or roller; spec. Nautical one of those on which the carriages of ships' guns were formerly mounted.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > wheel or roller
stock-wheel1547
truck1611
after-truck1834
artillery wheel1834
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Rigolo, a little wheele vsed vnder sleds. Gunners call it a trucke.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 65 If for Sea she [sc. gun carriage] haue Trucks, which are round intier peeces of wood like wheeles.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxii. 269 Those Priests had erected a Scaffold on two Axle-trees, that had Trucks fitted for them like the Carriage of Ship Guns.
1860 All Year Round 4 Aug. 404 At another of the guns, a shot came in and took off the truck (or, as a shore-going person would say, ‘the wheel’).
1883 [see truck-gun n. at Compounds 2]. 2. Nautical
a. A circular or square cap of wood fixed on the head of a mast or flag-staff, usually with small holes or sheaves for halyards.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > upper part of mast > knob or cap on
truck1626
pillow1632
acorn1768
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 13 The maine top gallant sayle yeard, the truck, or flagge staffe.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. iv. 18 The Trucke is a square peece of wood at the top wherein you put the Flag-staffe.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xv. 414 At our Main-top-mast head, on the very top of the truck of the Spindle.
1774 Westm. Mag. 2 429 What surprise he declar'd at the Boy on the truck!
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast viii. 18 We painted her, both inside and out, from the truck to the water's edge.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 192 The second mate..ordered me to go up and reeve the signal halliards in the mizzen truck.
b. One of the small wooden blocks through which the rope of a parrel is threaded to prevent its being frayed against the mast.
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a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) (at cited word) Those little round thinges of Wood which belong to the Parrells, are called Trucks.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 20 Parrels are little round Balls called Trucks, and little peeces of wood called ribs, and ropes.
c. See quot. 1685.
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1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services iv. 236 When the Main-capstan is not able to purchase in the Cable..they use to take a Hawser, and open a Strond thereof, and so put in Nippers, (which are small Ropes with a small Truck at one end) and with them they bind fast this Hawser to the Cable.
d. A similar block lashed to the shrouds to form a guide or fair-leader for running rigging.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > group of small cords through block > types of
truck1688
shroud-bridle1875
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 42/1 The Trucks are the little round things of wood made with holes through, to turne vpon a rope as aforesaid.
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 135 Trucks for Shrouds—42.
3. A wheeled vehicle for carrying heavy weights; variously applied.
a. A strong flat open trolley for carrying blocks of stone or the like; a lorry.
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b. A light two-wheeled hand-propelled vehicle; a hand-cart.
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c. An open railway wagon.
d. A bogie truck; = bogie n. 2.
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e. A low barrow of various types, with one to four wheels; as that used on railway platforms for moving luggage, etc.
f. A small barrow, with two stout low wheels and a projecting plate or lip in front, used for moving sacks or other heavy packages.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > for carrying heavy weights
truck1774
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides
roll-wainc1503
dray1581
troll1663
dray-cart1710
rulley1759
truck1774
trolley1823
gambo1836
lorry1838
platform car1843
platform wagon1850
trolley-cart1865
float1866
wherry?1881
camion1885
rolley1886
floater1888
sloven1889
1774 Hull Dock Act 46 Any truck or cart, sledge waggon, dray.
1815 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 47/2 A baker's boy was wheeling his truck of bread along the road.
1838 N. Wood Pract. Treat. Railroads 209 Truck for the conveyance of general merchandise.
1843 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 99 A ‘bogie’ engine, having a four-wheeled truck to support one end of the boiler.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ix. 98 There were more trucks near Todgers's than you would suppose a whole city could ever need.
1866 R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds xxiv. 274 Porters are hurrying to and fro with luggage on trucks.
1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. v. 42 Another truck was waiting to take it to the main shaft, from whence it went up to the puddlers.
g. A motor vehicle for carrying goods, troops, etc., by road. Cf. lorry n. 1b originally U.S.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry
rig1831
lorry1911
truck1916
camion1922
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 July 15/5 The iron-shod war horse of former days has evolved into the padded wheel motor car, motor truck, and motor cycle of 1916.
1930 Amer. Speech 5 274 American English has universally chosen motor truck and truck rather than auto-truck or the British lorry.
1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 3 The passengers cross the quay..round..abandoned trucks.
1950 Times 27 Apr. 6/7 Many soldiers in the last war will remember that ‘gas’ might or might not be petrol and a ‘truck’ might or might not be a lorry. So it is to-day with ‘gearbox’, ‘transmission’, and many others.
1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter vii. 112 One of the foremost ranchers near Gemsbok Pan was in the Union and coming back by truck across the desert.
1976 Economist 16 Oct. 92/1 Of European sales nearly 200,000 were glorified cars, about 400,000 medium-sized vans (up to 3.5 tonnes) and some 240,000 trucks (over 3.5 tonnes).
1984 Times 8 Feb. (Energy Suppl.) p. iv./2 This step by the manufacturers to put electric vans and trucks into serious production..has vindicated the enthusiasm of the..Electric Vehicles Association.
1984 N.Z. Truth 23 May 33/3 The new ERF M16, ERF's bid for sales in the mid~size truck market, is on its way to becoming a big seller in Europe.
h. An axle unit of a skateboard to which the wheels are attached.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > skateboarding > [noun] > skateboard > part of
truck1976
1976 A. Cassorla Skateboarder's Bible 12 The average board came with trucks featuring one cushion rather than two.
1977 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 509/1 Heavy duty double-action die-cast trucks.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Aug. 5/2 The wheels are lined with fibrous or plastic material to reduce noise, and steerable axles called trucks are supposed to eliminate squealing on curves and costly wear on rails.
4. U.S. A popular dance (see quots.). Cf. truck v.2 5, trucking n.2 2.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [noun]
pogoing1921
truck1935
trucking1935
jerk1964
bump1967
1935 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Nov. 14/6 The truck, or truckin', that jerky yet rhythmic dance which combines a bend of the body, a tightening of the hand muscles and a slight strut with the legs, hit the theaters, sidewalks, gin taverns and dance floors of Harlem last summer.
1937 N.Y. Amsterdam News 4 Sept. 12/2 Add a bit of the Shag, the new dance sensation that has pushed the ‘Truck’ out of the limelight, throw in a bit of the Suzi-Q for a spice and then top it all off with the ‘Truck’.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
truck-barrow n.
ΚΠ
1849 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Truck-barrow, in Ropemaking, a sort of barrow with three wheels, used to take hauls of yarn from the yarn-house.
truck-boy n.
ΚΠ
1900 Engin. Mag. 19 705 Castings keep coming in until there is a perfect wilderness of them piled about, through which the truck-boy winds his tortuous way.
truck construction n.
ΚΠ
1901 Daily News 16 Jan. 6/5 Colossal expenditure on track improvements, truck construction, and increased power of locomotives.
truck-driver n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle > lorry driver
teamster1805
truck-driver1907
lorry driver1926
skinner1929
truckie1958
trucker1961
1907 Daily News 17 Apr. 4 All sorts and conditions of people,..business men, truck drivers, workgirls, policemen, Army men, everybody.
1931 E. Wilson Axel's Castle viii. 278 At Marseilles, he manages to live by unloading cargo and helping truck-drivers.
1973 ‘R. MacLeod’ Burial in Portugal iii. 71 A truck driver leaned out of his cab and shouted a greeting.
truck-horse n.
ΚΠ
1839 Spirit of Times 27 July 246/1 Indeed many of their truck horses are equal to those used on the road.
1894 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (1900) 21 What does it cost to keep a truck-horse?
truck-load n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > a load as a quantity > truck-load
truckful1836
truck-load1862
1862 Sat. Rev. 18 Feb. 157 The great London firms have sent off many railway truck-loads of their publications.
1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 16/3 (advt.) Attention! all Trucklot Buyers!!.. Prices in this section apply on normal mixed truckloads.
truck-man n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of cart > of specific type of cart
drayman1581
courtier1630
truck-man1787
wherry-driver?1881
1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 27 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 306 By them..licensing retailers, taverns, carters, truckmen,..are regulated.
1854 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Wks. (1906) III. 192 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as..strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
1901 Scotsman 11 Apr. 8/1 The truckman..delivered the gold from the Assay office to the steamship.
truck-porter n.
truck-proprietor n.
truck-wagon n.
ΚΠ
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 227 W. J. Groves..manufactures..truck-wagons.
1897 Outing 30 351/2 At Baddeck our camping outfit was packed upon a truck-wagon.
truck-wheel n.
ΚΠ
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 423 The motion given to the truck-wheels of the spinning-machine.
truck-work n.
ΚΠ
1909 Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 7/6 Lad wanted for truck work.
b.
truck-like adj.
ΚΠ
1895 Daily News 8 Apr. 6/4 The third-class passenger for a long time had to be content with a truck-like carriage, with low sides, and seldom roofed.
C2.
truck-bolster n. the cross-beam of a bogie truck on which the weight of the carriage rests ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
truck-end n. slang rare the buttocks.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun]
flitcha700
arse-endseOE
culec1220
buttockc1300
tail1303
toutec1305
nagea1325
fundamentc1325
tail-end1377
brawna1382
buma1387
bewschers?a1400
crouponc1400
rumplec1430
lendc1440
nachec1440
luddocka1475
rearwarda1475
croupc1475
rumpc1475
dock1508
hurdies1535
bunc1538
sitting place1545
bottom?c1550
prat1567
nates1581
backside1593
crupper1594
posteriorums1596
catastrophe1600
podex1601
posterior1605
seat1607
poop1611
stern1631
cheek1639
breeka1642
doup1653
bumkin1658
bumfiddle1661
assa1672
butt1675
quarter1678
foundation1681
toby1681
bung1691
rear1716
fud1722
moon1756
derrière1774
rass1790
stern-post1810
sit-down1812
hinderland1817
hinderling1817
nancy1819
ultimatum1823
behinda1830
duff?1837
botty1842
rear end1851
latter end1852
hinder?1857
sit1862
sit-me-down1866
stern-works1879
tuchus1886
jacksy-pardy1891
sit-upon1910
can1913
truck-end1913
sitzfleisch1916
B.T.M.1919
fanny1919
bot1922
heinie1922
beam1929
yas yas1929
keister1931
batty1935
bim1935
arse-end1937
twat1937
okole1938
bahookie1939
bohunkus1941
quoit1941
patoot1942
rusty-dusty1942
dinger1943
jacksie1943
zatch1950
ding1957
booty1959
patootie1959
buns1960
wazoo1961
tush1962
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers iii. 53 But six shillin' wearin' his truck-end out on a stool's better than ten shillin' i' th' pit.
truck frame n. U.S. the frame of a bogie.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > platform on wheels > with small low wheels
bogiec1817
truck frame1850
dolly1901
bummer1905
skate1905
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 164 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI I claim the shapes and combinations of the truck frame pieces.
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 145 He nudged the log to the edge of the truckframe.
truck-gun n. a gun mounted on trucks (see sense 1).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > other pieces of ordnance
bombardc1430
ribaudequin1443
stock-gun1465
seven sistersa1529
chamber1540
bastard1545
chamber piece1547
volger1548
dogc1550
battardc1565
long shot1595
quarter piece1625
pelican1639
monkey1650
spirol1653
stock-fowler1669
saltamartino1684
smeriglio1688
botcarda1700
carriage gun1723
Lancaster1857
Armstrong1860
wire gun1860
Columbiad1861
Parrott1861
wedge-gun1876
truck-gun1883
motor cannon1889
Black Maria1914
Jack Johnson1914
supergun1915
flak1938
1883 Daily News 31 Aug. 6/6 One of the old class of corvettes with truck guns.
truck-jack n. see quot. 1877.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > jacks
screw1404
scalet1640
German devil1670
Jack1679
screw jack1719
spring-jack1724
jackscrew?1735
crick1775
fence-jack1874
swing-jack1875
wagon-jack1875
windlass-jack1875
truck-jack1877
setter1895
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Truck-jack, a lifting-jack suspended from a truck-axle to lift logs or other objects so that they may be loaded on to a sled or other low~bodied vehicle.
truck-light n. in the U.S. Navy, a mast-head signalling light.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > external lanterns lights
poop lantern1651
pharol1660
poop-light1708
top-lantern1748
pharos1759
truck-light18..
riding lamp1825
battle-lantern1830
pilot light1846
sidelight1848
riding light1861
running light1863
position light1889
smoking-lamp1889
navigation light1909
steaming light1909
spreader light1939
fanal-
society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > luminous signals > [noun] > fire signal > other signal lights
truck-light18..
18.. Army & Navy Reg. (U.S.A.) XXIV. 277 (Cent. Supp.) Truck-light.
trucklot n. North American a quantity of goods sufficient to fill a truck and sold at a lower rate than a smaller quantity.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > load or lot of specific size or abundance
ladec897
cheapc1384
shock1582
commodity1592
allotment1703
piece1774
break1864
lot1872
bulka1888
chance lot1888
trucklot1943
1943 Sun (Baltimore) 15 July 12/3 The regulation covers sales of berries at country shipping points, effective July 13, and carlot and trucklot sales at any receiving point.
truck mixer n. (see quot. 1954).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > mixing apparatus
pug mill1824
concrete mixer1834
concrete paver1834
paste-maker1875
mixer1876
planet stirrer1902
agitant1918
agitator1937
truck mixer1954
1954 Gloss. Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 49 Truck mixer, a concrete mixer mounted on a self-propelled chassis, capable of mixing materials during transit from a batching plant to the point of placing.
1976 Milton Keynes Express 9 July 16/1 (advt.) Experienced class II H.G.V. driver required to operate a truck mixer in the Milton Keynes area.
truck stop n. chiefly U.S. an establishment which provides refreshments for truck-drivers and fuel and servicing for their trucks.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc.
schooleOE
hospitalc1300
khanc1400
xenodochy?c1550
posting inn1556
vent1577
caravanserai1585
yam1587
serai1609
venta1610
post-house1611
xenodochium1612
imaret1613
seraglio1617
rancho1648
hospitium1650
watering-house1664
choultry1698
accommodation house1787
stage-house1788
spital1794
stand1805
resthouse1807
hospice1818
resting1879
stopping house1883
truck stop1961
1961 Amer. Speech 36 271 Somewhere on your run you will spend some time at a truck stop..while the hasher serves your diesel or Joe or Java.
1973 P. Berton Drifting Home vi. 91 Now it is a hodge-podge: tavern, gas station, motel, snack bar, grocery store. Carmacks has become a truck stop.
truck-windlass n. a windlass mounted on a truck ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).
Derivatives
ˈtruckful n. as much as fills or loads a truck.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > a load as a quantity > truck-load
truckful1836
truck-load1862
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxi. 213 He had moved in all his furniture—it wasn't quite a truck-full.
1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 12 Oct. Cigars are pouring in by the truckful and the cigarettes are innumerable.
1900 Daily News 1 Aug. 6/6 The truckful of sick and wounded left at Bloemfontein Station.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
truckn.3
/trʌk/, U.S. /trək/ historical.
In early use, usually in plural. A game, similar to billiards, the object of which is to drive a ball through a hoop using a cue. Frequently in truck table.
ΚΠ
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester iii. 39 Trucks is an Italian Game, and is much used in Spain and Ireland; it is not very unlike Billiards, but more boisterous, and in my opinion less gentile.
1736 Trial M. Vale 21 He would..fit up the House where Mr. George King formerly kept a Truck Table.
1798 T. Connelly & T. Higgins New Dict. Spanish & Eng. Lang. II. 172/2 The sally, or flight of the ball over the rim of the truck table, with a blow of the tack.
1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Nov. 10/1 The game spoken of above, with a cone and arch, is called by most writers a French game, and there was also another variety called ‘Trucks’, which was supposed to have originated in Italy.
1870 Field Q. Mag. & Rev. Aug. 230/1 A truck table was larger than a billiard table, and three feet longer than its breadth.
1908 tr. T. Haenke in B. F. Moses South Amer. on Eve of Emancipation i. 26 All kinds of drinks and ices are found in them [sc. the cafes], and each has its table for trucks or billiards.
2001 O. A. Rink in M. M. Klein Empire State (2005) i. v. 69 One was a billiard-like game called ‘truck’, usually played in taverns. Players used a cue to drive a ball through a wire wicket on a table, often wagering on the outcome.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
truckv.1
/trʌk/, U.S. /trək/ 1. transitive. To give in exchange for something else; to exchange (one thing) for another; also, to exchange (a thing) with a person (also absol.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)]
changec1225
truck?c1225
interchangec1374
permutec1400
wrixlec1400
turnc1449
wissel1487
chaffer1530
niffer1540
bandy1589
to chaffer words1590
swap1590
barter1596
counterchange1598
commute1633
trade1636
countercambiate1656
ring1786
rebarter1845
trade1864
swop1890
permutate1898
interconvert1953
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 299 Vndeore he makeð god. & to unwurð mid alle. þe for ei worldlich luue his luue trukeð.
c1230 Hali Meid. 5 And trukie for a mon of lam þe heuenliche lauerd.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 425 Trade..with hardy luck Doth words for words barter, exchange, and truck.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. vi. 28 in Wks. II S'blood, how braue is he? in a garded coate? you were best trucke with him.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 216 To truck the Latin for any other vulgar language, is but an ill barter.
1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle i. 9 What! slighted! despis'd! my honourable Love truck'd for a Whore!
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 23 Let him truck Jackets with any of his Barge-men.
1819 J. Keats King Stephen i. iii. 11 I would not truck this brilliant day To rule in Pylos with a Nestor's beard.
1827 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times II. 305 Revolutions have been effected.., dynasties annihilated, and kings trucked, with as little confusion as the exchanging a gig horse.
2. figurative.1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. ii. 3 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) Since we are both agred to truck Intelligence [etc.].a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 139 How cou'd you troke the mavis' note For ‘penny pies all-piping hot’?1896 J. Lumsden Poems 171 A' the news the country offered Crinch for crinch they trockit thrang.† b. To acquire by barter. Obsolete. rare.† d. To deal or traffic in (a commodity). rare.† e. To carry about for sale; to hawk, peddle.
a. To exchange (commodities) for profit; to barter. Const. for a thing, with a person.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)]
interchangec1374
changea1382
barterc1440
corsec1440
rore1440
truckc1440
coss14..
scorse1509
chafferc1535
to chop and change1549
chop1554
cope1570
excourse1593
swap1594
coupc1610
exchange1614
to trade off1676
rap1699
dicker1864
horse-trade1924
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 503/2 Trukkon, roryn, or chaungyn, cambio, campso.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Comm. Notable Thinges in tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 329 They..brought with them many curious thinges..to truck for other thinges.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. ii. 80 They kept Swine to truck and barter with other nations.
c1660 Sir D. North in H. Roscoe North's Lives (1826) II. 306 The seamen trucked some tobacco with them for their capeaks, or furred caps.
1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 380 For blanketing, fire-arms..and ammunition, they truck the greatest part of their furs.
1818 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. i. i. 65 My own stock being gone, I have trucked turnips for apples.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 19 Dec. 4/1 When the smacksmen have no money he [the skipper] will tempt them to ‘truck’ the stores of their vessel.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)] > acquire by barter
truck1553
1553 S. Cabot in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 261 All wares, and commodities trucked, bought or giuen to the companie.
1587 R. Hakluyt tr. R. de Laudonnière Notable Hist. Foure Voy. Florida f. 25 Fiue or sixe pounds weight of siluer which he had trucked and traffiked with the Indians.
1631 J. Rous Diary (1856) 67 Fish, either bought or trucked at Norwich.
c. To dispose of to a person by barter. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)] > dispose of by barter
exchange1483
chaffer1530
to chop away1554
swap1590
truck1686
to barter away1690
1686 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 187 Nicho. Skull hath sould and trucked to and with ye Indians severall quantities of Liquors.
1755 T. Prince Ann. New Eng. (1826) ii. ii. 317 That no person give, sell, truck or send any Indian corn to any English out of this jurisdiction.
1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 47 No selfish ministers,..for place, Truck to a crown their dignity of mind.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > [verb (transitive)]
monga1250
corsec1440
coss14..
merchant1511
chafferc1535
merchandise1538
mart1589
trade1589
broke1598
factor1611
handle1638
commercea1641
chop1645
chaffera1657
job1701
truck1715
to turn in1822
monger1928
1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 18 The very Sins of the Living, the Wages of Damnation, were negotiated and truck'd..by the wicked Politic of Popery.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > sell as itinerant vendor
cadge1607
bajulate1609
truck1681
peddle1786
work1826
1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon iv. ix. 157 We shewed him..the Cotton Yarn which we had trucked about the Country.
3.
a. To barter away (what should be sacred or precious) for something unworthy; = barter v. 2b.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)] > dispose of by barter > esp. for something unworthy
trucka1657
to truck away1656
barter1667
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cccxxviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 183 The Painted Apple, for his part In Paradice; France truck't, for a faire face.
1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino v. 11 Liberty's too often truckt for Gold.
a1726 W. Reeves 14 Serm. (1729) 160 He will not..truck his religion for preferment.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 374 Having trucked thy soul, brought home the fee.
1829 J. Sterling Ess. & Tales (1848) I. 124 Many of..the Spaniards..were willing to truck the independence of their country for the political benefits promised by the invaders.
b. to truck away: to dispose of by barter.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)] > dispose of by barter > esp. for something unworthy
trucka1657
to truck away1656
barter1667
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 6 For the obtaining whereof they truck away their precious souls.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 119 His men..(for some commodities usefull to themselves) had truckt away the greatest part of his Bisket.
1796 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. (1812) IX. 110 Some of our Kings have..trucked away, for foreign gold, the interests and glory of their crown.
4. intransitive. To trade by exchange of commodities; to barter. Const. for a thing with a person.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (intransitive)]
chopc1485
to chop and changec1485
barterc1503
truck1588
scorse1589
rap1699
swap1778
dicker1797
handel1850
1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 18 Neither would they take any mony for theyr fruite, but they would trucke for olde shirtes or peeces of olde linnen breeches.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiii. 216 Many..by trafficquing & trucking, within few daies haue lost their principall.
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. To Rdr. 3 Wee liue here as on the great Bursse and Exchange of the World, trucquing and trading as it were by the Merchant Waters thereof.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 41 Spaniards, who lived there to truck with the Indians for Gold.
1797 S. James Narr. Voy. 162 He would either sell them to him, or truck with him for any thing.
1854 R. G. Latham Native Races Russ. Empire 181 Chinese..tobacco, for which they truck with the Russians.
5.
a. intransitive. figurative or in figurative context: To bargain or deal for a commodity, with a person; to negotiate; also to have dealings in, to trade; esp. of dealings of an underhand or improper character: to traffic.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > trade illegally or immorally [verb (intransitive)]
truck1615
to buy and sell1623
truckle1806
1615 T. Jackson Iustifying Faith iv. iii. vii. §6 A city which is above, whose commodities cannot be purchased with gold or silver..much less may we truck for them with our unclean worldly delights.
1640 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 122 He hath most unworthily trucked and chaffered in the meanest of them.
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 500 [She] trucked with the army..and brought it over to her husband as her dowry.
1664 in Howell State Trials (1816) VI. 607 Here is Wild commits a robbery, you come and truck with Wild, and agree with him that Mr. Tryon shall let him go.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 171 Ye lowns that troke in doctors' stuff.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. v. 119 She must go on troking wi' the old carrier, as if there was no post-house in the neighbourhood.
1904 Daily News 7 Dec. 11 Private communities have no business to ‘truck with’ the State.
b. In weakened sense: To have dealings or intercourse with, to have to do with, be on familiar terms; †spec. of sexual intercourse. Now dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement [verb (intransitive)] > with a person
conclude1462
settle1527
gree1574
compact1592
clear1609
truck1622
1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre ii. iv. 54 If he haue..the vnderstanding of other Languages he is an inestimable Iuell, for so he shall be able to trucke with strangers for the benefit of his Company.
a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) ii. i. 35 Truck with ould ladies Whome nature hath given ore.
a1658 J. Cleveland Mixt Assembly 86 If they two truck together, 'twill not be A Child-birth, but a Goal-delivery.
a1704 T. Brown Satire upon Quack in Wks. (1720) I. 72 Wrinkled Witches, when they truck with Hell.
1719 W. Hamilton Epist. to Ramsay 24 July v To troke with thee I'd best forbear 't.
1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 132 Me..wuss me hae never Enbowr see, Nor wi' sic Lady trockit.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xi. 183 He held ower muckle trocking and communing wi' that Meg Merrilies, wha was the most notorious witch in all Galloway.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Troke, to truck, to negotiate with, to be on familiar terms.
6. intransitive. To walk about on petty business; to potter. Scottish.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander
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1864 Gilfillan Jrnl. in Watson Life (1892) 384 I troked about Edinburgh for a day or two.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxix. 272 Tak' a girss parkie or twa an' trock aboot amo' nowte beasts.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker vi. 84 Going troking across a continent on a wild-goose chase.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xxxv. 294 His night-hawk traikings and trokings with a dozen hizzies.
7. transitive. To pay (an employee) otherwise than in money; to pay or deal with on the truck system (with the implication of profiting by the transaction). Also intransitive.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > pay (a person) for labour or service [verb (transitive)] > pay in goods
truck1871
1871 A. S. Harvey in Good Words 12 610 A large proportion of the trade is in the hands of middlemen, called ‘foggers’,—those who truck being known as ‘pettifoggers’,—each of whom employs a certain number of nailmakers.
1871 A. S. Harvey in Good Words 12 614 He..works on,..trucked by the same merchant from boyhood to manhood, from manhood to old age.
1871 A. S. Harvey in Good Words 12 615 The very paupers used to be ‘trucked’, the inspectors..gave the paupers their relief in kind.
1879 T. H. S. Escott England I. 265 25,000 hands are employed, and, speaking roughly, about 14,000 are trucked.
8. intransitive. = truckle v. 2a. Obsolete. rare.
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society > authority > subjection > be under authority [verb (intransitive)]
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to be at the beck and call of1869
1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 174 Their Towns..ready to submit to any new Masters, rather than Truck under Amsterdam.
1674 T. Staveley Romish Horseleech Ep. Ded. sig. A8 Amsterdam supplanted Antwerp:—Flanders truckled under Holland.
Derivatives
ˈtrucking adj. that trucks or barters.
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society > trade and finance > barter > [adjective] > bartering
trucking1776
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. ii. 18 This same trucking disposition..originally gives occasion to the division of labour. View more context for this quotation
1871 A. S. Harvey in Good Words 12 611 In the hosiery trade the trucking middlemen undersell the cash-paying masters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
truckv.2
1. transitive. To put on or into a truck; to convey by means of a truck or trucks. Now usually with reference to truck n.2 3g.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)] > in trucks
truck1809
1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 73 Wharfage and Shipping Marking £1 16s. 7d., Trucking..£1 10s.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Sept. 10/2 At stations where cattle are trucked, special accommodation for trucking them quietly and carefully,..ought to be provided.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 7/2 A farmer in Perthshire, having lost one or two animals from the plague, immediately trucked off the rest to London for the Monday morning's market.
1884 Western Morning News 6 Aug. 1/2 Lots can be trucked..to any part of the West of England.
1935 Motion Picture Nov. 80/3 The heavy electrical equipment was trucked in.
1943 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Apr. 8/3 The fighters are trucked in crated from cargo ships.
1954 B. Miles Stars my Blanket xxiii. 199 Their four-year-olds..will be trucked to the factories as ‘fats’.
1969 A. Lurie Real People 108 He has trucked all his equipment..up here at considerable expense.
1982 L. Kallen Introd. C. B. Greenfield iv. 47 The produce, trucked in daily from their own upstate farm, was fresh.
2. intransitive. To drive or take charge of a truck, to act as a truck-driver. U.S. colloquial.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > drive or operate a motor vehicle > specific type of vehicle
truck1907
hot-rod1946
1907 Black Cat June 3 I been truckin' fer you, or rather fer your father and uncle, eighteen years, and that's the first time any one's ever accused me of droppin' anything.
1976 M. Machlin Pipeline xi. 135 If he stayed with the private contractors who were trucking for Denali, it was improbable he would be recognized.
3.
a. U.S. slang. Of a vehicle: to proceed. Hence of a person: to go (by truck or otherwise); to move or stroll.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)]
truck1925
1925 C. R. Cooper Lions 'n' Tigers v. 109 One by one the big wagons were trucking toward the first smoking torch at a corner of the grounds.
1938 Better English Nov. 51 Truck, truck on down, to go somewhere.
1941 J. Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts Sea of Cortez xxiv. 237 We said good-by to Tiburoń and trucked on down toward Guaymas.
1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers 131 They would truck around in the pimp style, too.
1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 148 You'll still find plenty of people trucking through the streets in flannel shirts, blue jeans, cowboy hats, and boots.
b. Slang phrase to keep on trucking, to persevere: a phrase of encouragement.
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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist [verb (intransitive)]
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to stick unto ——1529
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to stem one's course1826
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to hang on1860
to worry along1871
to stay the course1885
slug1943
to slug it out1943
to bash on1950
to soldier on1954
to keep on trucking1972
1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 28 Oct. 12 One poster..shows the famous R. Crumb cartoon characters and bears the caption: ‘Let's Keep on Truckin'.’
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 6 Nov. (Advt. Suppl.) 5/4 ‘To keep in business he's just got to keep on truckin'.’ For Karl, and his kind, that can mean upwards of 200,000 miles a year.
1977 New Yorker 27 June 79/1 Feels like I frosted the ends of my toes a bit, but they're far from my heart, so I'll keep on truckin.
4. Cinematography. = track v.1 3e.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > camera movements > [verb (intransitive)]
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pan1928
truck1929
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track1959
whip-pan1960
1929 Bookman Feb. 622 ‘Moving in’ or ‘trucking up’ means wheeling the camera (on a small rubber tired wagon or ‘dolly’) closer to the characters.
1942 Amer. Cinematographer June 283/2 The camera would start at a long shot, and truck rapidly down toward the background.
1948 A. Huxley Ape & Essence (1949) 151 Dr. Poole and Loola enter the shot, and the Camera trucks with them as they come striding down the slope.
1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production iii. 25 (caption) Two methods of trucking sideways are shown.
5. To dance the truck. U.S. slang.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [verb (intransitive)]
truck1937
pogo1977
1937 Amer. Speech 12 183/1 Only negroes can really truck.
1966 M. & J. Stearns in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 614/2 Sweetie May trucks provocatively onstage.
1972 W. M. Estes Streetful of People vii. 238 Toward the end of the number, the girls turned rosy red and started truckin'.
Derivatives
trucked adj. ; trucked-in adj., brought by truck.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [adjective] > brought by truck
trucked-in1940
1940 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Apr. 15/5 Offerings during forenoon rounds in the sheep pens consisted of a few lots of trucked-in native spring lambs.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 56 The trucked-in white sand.
1977 Time (Europe ed.) 7 Mar. 54/3 Lack of green grazing land and hay is also forcing cattlemen either to sell off their thin animals at low prices or fatten them on expensive trucked-in feed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† truckv.3
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To trudge, tramp.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > laboriously or aimlessly
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schlump1957
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xxi. 169 If he..fall into a Gravell-pit, hee taxeth the Citie for her governement, for leaving her Cellar doores so wide open at that time a night. Yet on hee trucks, if he can mount the pit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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