4 entries under this word
v. i. [imp. & p. p. TRUCKED (trŭkt); p. pr. & vb. n. TRUCKING.] [Fr. troquer, Sp. & Pg. trocar.] To exchange commodities; to barter; to deal. “A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them.” Palfrey.
Despotism itself is obliged to truck and barter. Burke.
v. t. To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.
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. J. S. Mill.
n. [Fr. troc, Pg. troco, Sp. trueco.] 1. Exchange of commodities; barter. 2. Commodities appropriate to barter, or for small trade; hence, small commodities, and, sometimes, luggage. [Colloq.]
n. [Gr. τροχός, a wheel, from τρέχειν, to run.]
Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. Macaulay. 3. (Railway Mach.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, &c., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or car;—sometimes called bogie, in England. Railway-truck. Trucks now in use have from four to sixteen wheels. The cut shows the common truck. A, truck-frame; B, axle-guard; C, swing-beam; D, axle-box; E, india-rubber springs.
