Found 2 items, similar to trek.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: trek
trek
n 1: a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by
a group of settlers)
2: any long and difficult trip
v 1: journey on foot, especially in the mountains;
“We spent the
summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas”
2: make a long and difficult journey;
“They trekked towards the
North Pole with sleds and skis”
[also:
trekking,
trekked]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Trek
Trek
\Trek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Trekked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trekking.] [Written also
treck.] [D. trekken. See
Track, n.] [South Africa]
1. To draw or haul a load, as oxen.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to
migrate. [Chiefly South Africa]
One of the motives which induced the Boers of 1836
to trek out of the Colony. --James Bryce.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Trek
\Trek\, n. [Written also
treck.] [D. Cf.
Track, n.]
The act of trekking; a drawing or a traveling; a journey; a
migration. [Chiefly South Africa]
To the north a trek was projected, and some years later
was nearly carried out, for the occupation of the
Mashonaland. --James Bryce.
Great Trek, the great emigration of Boers from Cape Colony
which began in 1836, and resulted in the founding of the
South African Republic and Orange Free State.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]