truck1
noun
1 (British) a vehicle for carrying freight on a railway; wagon
2 another name (esp. U.S., Canadian, and Austral.) for: lorry [1]
3 a frame carrying two or more pairs of wheels and usually springs and brakes, attached under an end of a railway coach, etc.
4 (Nautical) a a disc-shaped block fixed to the head of a mast having sheave holes for receiving signal halyards
b the head of a mast itself
5 any wheeled vehicle used to move goods verb
6 to convey (goods) in a truck
7 [intransitive] (Chiefly U.S. and Canadian) to drive a truck
[ETYMOLOGY: 17th Century: perhaps shortened from truckle2]
truck 2
noun
1 commercial goods
2 dealings (esp. in the phrase have no truck with)
3 commercial exchange
4 (archaic) payment of wages in kind
5 miscellaneous articles
6 (informal) rubbish
7 (U.S. and Canadian) vegetables grown for market
verb
8 (archaic) to exchange (goods); barter
9 [intransitive] to traffic or negotiate
[ETYMOLOGY: 13th Century: from Old French troquer (unattested) to barter, equivalent to Medieval Latin trocare, of unknown origin]
― chaki (chaki), Friday, 22 August 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)