truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌk/
ipa: /tɹʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: trucks
Etymology: Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).
Senses: examples: text: “Put that cannon up once, and I'll answer for it that no Injin faces it. 'Twill be as good as a dozen sentinels,” answered Joel. “As for mountin’, I thought of that before I said a syllable about the crittur. There's the new truck-wheels in the court, all ready to hold it, and the carpenters can put the hinder part to the whull, in an hour or two.”
ref: 1843, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 3, in Wyandotte:
glosses: A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
glosses: The ball on top of a flagpole.
examples: text: But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
examples: text: We rented a truck big enough to carry the whole load in one trip.
text: A line of fifty trucks from the Zenith Steel and Machinery Company was attacked by strikers-rushing out from the sidewalk, pulling drivers from the seats, smashing carburetors and commutators, while telephone girls cheered from the walk, and small boys heaved bricks.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 1, in Babbit:
text: That's why driving truck became more than a job for many in the industry. Driving truck was a lifestyle.
ref: 2009, James Beach, Peterbilt: Long-Haul Legend, page 48:
synonyms: lorry
hypernyms: motor vehicle
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glosses: A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods; (in Malaysia/Singapore) a such vehicle with a closed or covered carriage.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: goods wagon
word: freight wagon
word: goods carriage
word: freight carriage
word: goods truck
word: freight truck
word: freight car
glosses: A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods.
examples: text: Goods were therefore conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: From the doors of these rooms went men with loaded trucks, to the platform where freight cars were waiting to be filled; and one went out there and realized with a start that he had come at last to the ground floor of this enormous building.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter III, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
hyponyms: hand truck
pallet truck
forklift truck
glosses: Any smaller wagon or cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: word: bogie
glosses: Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; a pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track.
glosses: The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A platform with wheels or casters.
examples: text: “Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?”
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, chapter I, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
glosses: Dirt or other messiness.
Derived terms: word: ad truck
word: armored truck
word: armoured truck
word: auto transport truck
word: back up the truck
word: bed truck
word: Bissell truck
word: Bissel truck
word: blitz truck
word: boat truck
word: box truck
word: breakdown truck
word: Brink's truck
word: brush truck
word: bucket truck
word: cantina truck
word: cube truck
word: double truck
word: drive truck
word: dumper truck
word: dump truck
word: e-truck
word: fall off a truck
word: fall off the back of a truck
word: fall off the turnip truck
word: fire truck
word: flatbed truck
word: food truck
word: food-truck
word: fork truck
word: fuck truck
word: garbage truck
word: gas truck
word: gypsy truck
word: haul-pack truck
word: haul truck
word: have truck and trade with
word: have truck with
word: hit like a truck
word: hot truck
word: ice-cream truck
word: icecream truck
word: ice cream truck
word: Ku truck
word: leading truck
word: leaf truck
word: lift truck
word: Mack truck
word: mail truck
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: truck-wheels
word: milk truck
word: monster truck
word: motor truck
word: moving truck
word: nutting truck
word: panel truck
word: pick up truck
word: pony truck
word: pump truck
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: cattle truck
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: coal truck
word: railway truck
word: rain truck
word: recovery truck
word: recycle truck
word: refrigerator truck
word: roll the trucks
word: runaway truck ramp
word: sack truck
word: salt truck
word: self-driving truck
word: semi truck
word: semi-truck
word: silo truck
word: skateboard truck
word: sound truck
word: sport truck
word: squad truck
word: stack truck
word: tanker truck
word: tank truck
word: tiller truck
word: tipper truck
word: tip truck
word: tow truck
word: tow-truck
word: trailing truck
word: trash truck
word: truck and trailer
word: truck bay
word: truck beam
word: truck bomb
word: truck-borne
word: truck camper
word: truck crop
word: truck driver
word: truck-driver
word: truck driver's gear change
word: truck driver's tan
word: truck driver tan
word: truck farm
word: truck farmer
word: truck farming
word: truck in
word: truck nuts
word: truck out
word: truck patch
word: truck roll
word: truck stop
word: truckstop
Related terms: topics: nautical
transport
sailing
nautical
transport
word: main-truck
word: crow's nest
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: gun-carriage
word: semi
word: trailer truck
word: rig
word: monster truck