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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Truck \Truck\, n. [L. trochus an iron hoop, Gr. ? a wheel, fr. ?
   to run. See {Trochee}, and cf. {Truckle}, v. i.]
   1. A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a
      small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun
      carriage.

   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. (Railroad Mach.) 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.

   4. (Naut.)
      (a) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a
          masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards
          through.
      (b) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or
          disk-shaped, used for various purposes.

   5. A freight car. [Eng.]

   6. A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various
      purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.

Truck \Truck\, v. i.
   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.

Truck \Truck\, n. [Cf. F. troc.]
   1. Exchange of commodities; barter. --Hakluyt.

   2. Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade;
      small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden
      vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]

   3. The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; --
      called also {truck system}.

   {Garden truck}, vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U.
      S.]

   {Truck farming}, raising vegetables for market: market
      gardening. [Colloq. U. S.]

Truck \Truck\, v. t.
   To transport on a truck or trucks.

Truck \Truck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trucked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {trucking}.] [OE. trukken,F. troquer; akin to Sp. & Pg.
   trocar; of uncertain origin.]
   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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

truck
     n 1: an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling [syn: {motortruck}]
     2: a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge
        at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates
        or other heavy objects [syn: {hand truck}]

truck
     v : convey (goods etc.) by truck; "truck fresh vegetables across
         the mountains"