Image:Volvo FH12 täysperävaunuyhdistelmä.jpg|thumb|right|A truck (motor vehicle).
Image:Hand-truck.jpg|thumb|right|A hand truck.
English

Pronunciation
IPA|/tr�k/
audio|en-us-truck.ogg|Audio (US)

:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�k|-�k

Etymology 1
Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus, 'iron hoop, wheel'.

Noun
en-noun

1. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage.

#*1843, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte, Chapter 3
#*: "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

1. The ball on top of a flagpole.
2. nautical On a wooden mast, a circular disc of wood at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards.

#:"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? Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 9.

1. US A semitractor trailor; a lorry.

#: NO THRU TRUCKS
#: NO TRUCKS LEFT LANE
#*1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, Chapter 1
#*: 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.

1. context|originally|US Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, also including vans and pickups.
2. A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
3. A small wagon pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, of various designs, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books for reshelving.

#*1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Chapter 3
#*: 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.

1. A pantechnicon.
2. UK A flatbed railway car.
3. The pivoting frame of a railway car that supports the wheels and allows them to make turns.

#*1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
#*: Far away he could hear the sharp clinking of the trucks on the railway. No, it was not they that were far away. They were there in their places. But where was he himself?''

1. The part of a skateboard that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings. Sometimes mounted with a riser in between.

Derived terms
rel-top|terms derived from truck
hand truck
monster truck
pick-up truck
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pickup truck
tow truck
truck stop
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Translations
trans-top|top of a flagpole
Finnish: nuppi
Swedish: flaggstångsknopp, knopp
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trans-top|vehicle designed for carrying cargo
Arabic: Arab|شاح�ة unicode|(š�ħina) f
Bulgarian: камион (kamión) m
Chinese: 貨�, 货车 (huòch�)
Czech: kamión m, kamion m
Danish: lastbil, truck (slang)
Dutch: vrachtauto m, vrachtwagen m
Finnish: kuorma-auto
French: camion m
German: Lastauto n, Laster m, Lastkraftwagen m, LKW m, Lastwagen m, Lieferwagen m
Hungarian: teherautó
Ido: kamiono
Italian: autocarro m, camion m
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Japanese: ���� (torakku)
Korean: �� (teureok)
Lithuanian: sunkvežimis m
Maori: taraka
Persian: FAchar|کا���� (kamion)
Portuguese: caminhão m
Russian: г��зовик (gruzovík) m
Spanish: camión m italbrac|note that in Mexico, "camión" can also mean "bus", thus it will depend on the context, whether they are talking about a "truck" or a "bus" ; italbrac|small truck camioneta f
Swedish: lastbil c (lorry), lastvagn c (technical term), dragbil c (tractor), kärra c (cart)
Welsh: lori f
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two-wheeled wheelbarrow

wagon
See wagon

pantechnicon
See pantechnicon

trans-top|pivoting frame of a railwaycar
Finnish: teli
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trans-top|part of skateboard
trans-mid
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Verb
en-verb

1. intransitive To drive a truck.
2. transitive To convey by truck.
3. intransitive To travel contentedly.

#:Keep on trucking!

1. (film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.

Derived terms
trucker
trucking

Translations
trans-top|drive a truck
Danish: køre en lastbil
French: conduire un camion
trans-mid
Italian: guidare un autocarro, guidare un camion
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Etymology 2
Middle English trukien, from unrecorded Anglo-Norman and Old French words (attested in mediaeval Latin trocare), of unknown origin.

Verb
en-verb

1. transitive To trade, exchange; barter.
2. intransitive To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
3. intransitive To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

Translations
trade
See trade

Noun
en-noun

1. obsolete (often used in plural sense) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.

#:1884 There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck. � Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter 20.
#:1911 It happened in this way, on a day when I was indulging in a particularly greenery-yallery fit of gloom. Norah rushed into my room. I think I was mooning over some old papers, or letters, or ribbons, or some such truck in the charming, knife-turning way that women have when they are blue. � Edna Ferber, Dawn O'Hara, the Girl who Laughed, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&actsurround&offset303592886&tagFerber,+Edna:+Dawn+O'Hara,+the+Girl+who+Laughed&querytruck&idFerDawn Chapter 5.]

1. US Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).

#:1923 I obtained my first view of a lunar city. It was built around a crater, and the buildings were terraced back from the rim, the terraces being generally devoted to the raising of garden truck and the principal fruit-bearing trees and shrubs. Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Moon Maid, Chapter 10.

1. (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.

#:1890 'How can I decide?' said I. 'You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome.' � Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four.

Derived terms
have no truck with

Adjective
en-adj|-

1. Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.

#:November 4, 1792 As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted. � George Washington, The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: Volume 32, 1745-1799.
#:1903 "Wid dat, Brer Rabbit 'low dat Mr. Man done been had 'im hired fer ter take keer er his truck patch, an' keep out de minks, de mush-rats an' de weasels. � Joel Chandler Harris, "Brother Rabbit's Cradle", New Stories of the Old Plantation, Chapter 11

Usage notes
For this etymology, the word is virtually obsolete. It really only survives as a fossil in the construction to have no truck with. In the US, the derived term truck garden is often confused with Etymology 1, in the sense "produce raised to be trucked to market''.

Swedish

Noun
truck c
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