Definition of Truck

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Definition of Truck

Truck

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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Truck Quotations

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
Lou Holtz

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
Tim Allen

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
Jeff Foxworthy

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
Jeff Foxworthy

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
Elvis Presley

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Elvis Presley

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
Neil Young

Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad.
Chris LeDoux

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.
Chris LeDoux

Truck Translations

truck in Afrikaans is vragmotor
truck in Danish is lastvogn
truck in Dutch is vrachtauto, truck, vrachtwagen
truck in Finnish is kuorma-auto
truck in French is camiono, camion
truck in German is Lastwagen
truck in Italian is camion
truck in Norwegian is lastebil
truck in Swedish is lastbil, transportera

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