Collins English-English Dictionary

truck [tr^k]

1. 1. n [US, Canadian, and Austral.] a large motor vehicle designed to carry heavy loads, esp one with a flat platform lorry

2. 2. n [Brit] a vehicle for carrying freight on a railway; wagon

3. 3. n a frame carrying two or more pairs of wheels and usually springs and brakes, attached under an end of a railway coach, etc

4. 4. n

5. 5. n [nautical] a disc-shaped block fixed to the head of a mast having sheave holes for receiving signal halyards

6. 6. n the head of a mast itself

7. 7. n any wheeled vehicle used to move goods

8. 8. vb to convey (goods) in a truck

9. 9. vi. [intr] [chiefly US and Canadian] to drive a truck

10. 10. vi. [Etymology] C17: perhaps shortened from truckle²

truck [tr^k]

1. 1. n commercial goods

2. 2. n dealings (esp in the phrase have no truck with)

3. 3. n commercial exchange

4. 4. n [archaic] payment of wages in kind

5. 5. n miscellaneous articles

6. 6. n [informal] rubbish

7. 7. n [US and Canadian] vegetables grown for market

8. 8. vb [archaic] to exchange (goods); barter

9. 9. vi. [intr] to traffic or negotiate

10. 10. vi. [Etymology] C13: from Old French troquer (unattested) to barter, equivalent to Medieval Latin trocare, of unknown origin