truck
/tɹʌk/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.64 in modern English
Meaning
noun
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".
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; Indian usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "“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.”"
- "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?"
- "We rented a truck big enough to carry the whole load in one trip."
- "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."
- "That's why driving truck became more than a job for many in the industry. Driving truck was a lifestyle."
- "Goods were therefore conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹʌk/
- British English: /tɹʌk/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Australian usage
- Canadian usage
- Indian usage
- American usage
- British usage
- Intransitive verb
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Military.