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truck 1  (trk)
n.
1. Any of various heavy motor vehicles designed for carrying or pulling loads.
2. A hand truck.
3. A wheeled platform, sometimes equipped with a motor, for conveying loads in a warehouse or freight yard.
4. One of the swiveling frames of wheels under each end of a railroad car or trolley car.
5. A set of bookshelves mounted on four wheels or casters, used in libraries.
6. Nautical A small piece of wood placed at the top of a mast or flagpole, usually having holes through which halyards can be passed.
7. Chiefly British A railroad freight car without a top.
v. trucked, truck·ing, trucks
v.tr.
To transport by truck.
v.intr.
1. To carry goods by truck.
2. To drive a truck.
3. Slang To move or travel in a steady but easy manner.

[Short for truckle or from Latin trochus, iron hoop (from Greek trokhos, wheel).]

truck 2  (trk)
v. trucked, truck·ing, trucks
v.tr.
1. To exchange; barter.
2. To peddle.
v.intr.
To have dealings or commerce; traffic.
n.
1. Articles of commerce; trade goods.
2. Garden produce raised for the market.
3. Informal Worthless goods; stuff or rubbish: "Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?" (Mark Twain).
4. Barter; exchange.
5. Informal Dealings; business: We'll have no further truck with them.

[Middle English trukien, from Old North French troquer.]

truck1
n
1. (Transport / Railways) Brit a vehicle for carrying freight on a railway; wagon
2. another name (esp US, Canadian, and Austral.) for lorry [1]
3. (Transport / Railways) a frame carrying two or more pairs of wheels and usually springs and brakes, attached under an end of a railway coach, etc.
4. (Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical
a.  a disc-shaped block fixed to the head of a mast having sheave holes for receiving signal halyards
b.  the head of a mast itself
5. any wheeled vehicle used to move goods
vb
1. to convey (goods) in a truck
2. (intr) Chiefly US and Canadian to drive a truck
[perhaps shortened from truckle2]

truck2
n
1. (Business / Commerce) commercial goods
2. dealings (esp in the phrase have no truck with)
3. (Business / Commerce) commercial exchange
4. (Business / Commerce) Archaic payment of wages in kind
5. miscellaneous articles
6. Informal rubbish
7. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) US and Canadian vegetables grown for market
vb
1. (Business / Commerce) Archaic to exchange (goods); barter
2. (intr) to traffic or negotiate
[from Old French troquer (unattested) to barter, equivalent to Medieval Latin trocare, of unknown origin]

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