truck

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large road vehicle for carrying heavy goods.

   We rented a truck big enough to carry the whole load in one trip.

2. 2
   verb

   To carry goods somewhere by truck.

   They truck fresh vegetables across the mountains every night.

3. 3
   noun

   A small cart on wheels for moving heavy things by hand, such as luggage or boxes.

   The porter loaded our bags onto a truck and wheeled them to the lobby.

From Middle English truken, troken, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *trokōn (“to fail, miss, lack”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew-, *derwu- (“to tear, wrap, reap”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split”). Cognate with Middle Low German troggelen (“to cheat, deceive, swindle”), Dutch troggelen (“to extort”), German dialectal truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”).

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