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Entry 13 senses · 5 variants Webster, 1913

Truck

/trŭk/ · IPA /tɹʌk/
01 n. A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
  1. 1.
    A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.(Ord.)
  2. 2.
    A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.
    “Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs.” — Macaulay.
  3. 3.
    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.(Railroad Mach.)
  4. 4.
    A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.(Naut.)
  5. 5.
    A freight car.[Eng.]
  6. 6.
    A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
  7. 7.
    a motorized vehicle larger than an automobile with a compartment in front for the driver, behind which is a separate compartment for freight;
02 v. t. To transport on a truck or trucks.
  1. 1.
    To transport on a truck or trucks.
03 v. t. To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.
imp. & p. p. Trucked; p. pr. & vb. n. trucking
  1. 1.
    To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.
    “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.
04 v. i. To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.
  1. 1.
    To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.
    “A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them.” — Palfrey.
    “Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster.” — Burke.
    “To truck and higgle for a private good.” — Emerson.
05 n. Exchange of commodities; barter.
  1. 1.
    Exchange of commodities; barter.
  2. 2.
    Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.[Colloq.]
  3. 3.
    The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system. Also: truck system
Phrases & compounds
Garden truck — vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U. S.] -- Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening.