Found 4 items, similar to Truck.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: truck truk
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: truck gerobak, truk
English → English (WordNet) Definition: truck truck n 1: an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling [syn: motortruck] 2: a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects [syn: hand truck] truck v : convey (goods etc.) by truck; “truck fresh vegetables across the mountains”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Truck Truck \Truck\, n. [L. trochus an iron hoop, Gr. ? a wheel, fr. ? to run. See Trochee, and cf. Truckle, v. i.] 1. A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage. [1913 Webster] 2. A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles. [1913 Webster] Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. (Railroad Mach.) 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. [1913 Webster] 4. (Naut.) (a) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through. (b) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes. [1913 Webster] 5. A freight car. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] 6. A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies. [1913 Webster] 7. a motorized vehicle larger than an automobile with a compartment in front for the driver, behind which is a separate compartment for freight; esp. (a) such a vehicle with an inflexible body. (b) A vehicle with a short body and a support for attaching a trailer; -- also called a tractor[4]. (c) the combination of tractor and trailer, also called a tractor-trailer (a form of articulated vehicle); it is a common form of truck, and is used primarily for hauling freight on a highway. (d) a tractor with more than one trailer attached in a series. In Australia, often referred to as a road train . [PJC] Truck \Truck\, v. i. To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal. [1913 Webster] A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster] Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. --Burke. [1913 Webster] To truck and higgle for a private good. --Emerson. [1913 Webster] Truck \Truck\, n. [Cf. F. troc.] 1. Exchange of commodities; barter. --Hakluyt. [1913 Webster] 2. Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 3. The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system. [1913 Webster] Garden truck, vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U. S.] Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening. [Colloq. U. S.] [1913 Webster] Truck \Truck\, n. 1. barter. 2. commodidites for barter or for small trade. 3. association, interaction, or connection, as in “I'll have no truck with the likes of them.” 4. payment of wages in goods, rather than cash. [sn5. vegetables grown for market, as in truck farm. 6. small articles of little value. [1913 Webster] Truck \Truck\, v. t. To transport on a truck or trucks. [1913 Webster] Truck \Truck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trucked; p. pr. & vb. n. trucking.] [OE. trukken,F. troquer; akin to Sp. & Pg. trocar; of uncertain origin.] To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]