truck

Forms

1.A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- The fire truck is on its way.
- A truck hit the dog.
- Tom isn't in the truck.
2.The ball on top of a flagpole.
- The fire truck is on its way.
- A truck hit the dog.
- Tom isn't in the truck.
3.A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods; (in Malaysia/Singapore) a such vehicle with a closed or covered carriage.
- We rented a truck big enough to carry the whole load in one trip.
- That's why driving truck became more than a job for many in the industry. Driving truck was a lifestyle.
4.On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
- But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?

1.To travel, to proceed.(slang)
- Instead, when relatives heard that the right ship had docked, they trucked over to Ellis Island and waited desperately by the Kissing Post.
2.To persist, to endure.(slang)
- “What's ol' Harrison up to these days, Larry?” Grandpa asked. “Oh, he's still trucking along,” Uncle Larry replied.
3.To drive a truck.
- My father has been trucking for 20 years.
4.To convey by truck.
- Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.
- Colson was to truck the 'plane to Alice Springs, where it would be trained to Adelaide for repairs.

Common· #1423

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *drem-influ.

Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō)

Ancient Greek -ῐ́λος (-ĭ́los)

Ancient Greek τροχῐ́λος (trokhĭ́los)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā