The Meaning of truck

• (v. i.) A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
• (v. i.) A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.
• (v. i.) 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.
• (v. i.) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
• (v. i.) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
• (v. i.) A freight car.
• (v. i.) A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
• (v. t.) To transport on a truck or trucks.
• (v. t.) To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.
• (v. i.) To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.
• (n.) Exchange of commodities; barter.
• (n.) Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.
• (n.) The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.

Synonyms

motortruck , hand truck

Rhymes

amok , amuck , bruck , buc , buck , canuck , chuck , chuck-a-luck , cluck , cruck , druck , duc , duck , duk , dumbstruck , fluck , fuck , gluck , guck , huck , hucke , kluck , kruck , kruk , kuc , kuck , kuk , luck , lucke , luk , megabuck , moonstruck , muck , pluck , potluck , puck , roebuck , ruck , schmuck , schuch , schuck , sculk , shuck , smuck , snuck , starstruck , struck , stuck , stucke , suck , suk , thunderstruck , tuck , tuque , unstuck , wnuk , woodchuck , wruck , yuck , yuk , zuck , zuk