6. A frame on low wheels or rollers; — used for various purposes, as
for a movable support for heavy bodies.
Truck, v. t. To transport on a truck or trucks.
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.
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 (?), 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"age (?), n. The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter;
truck.
The truckage of perishing coin.
Milton.
Truck"age, n. Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck;
freight.
Truck"er (?), n. One who trucks; a trafficker.
No man having ever yet driven a saving bargain with this great trucker
for souls.
South.
Truck"ing, n. The business of conveying goods on trucks.
Truc"kle (?), n. [Dim. of truck a wheel; or from the kindred L.
trochlea a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys. See Truck a
wheel.] A small wheel or caster. Hudibras.
Truc"kle, v. i. [From truckle in truckle-bed, in allusion to the fact
that the truckle-bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the
large bed of the master.] To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of
another; to submit; to creep. "Small, trucking states." Burke.
Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey.
Norris.
Truc"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Truckled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Truckling
(?).] To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
Truc"kle-bed` (?), n. A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under
another bed; a trundle-bed. "His standing bed and truckle-bed." Shak.
Truc"kler (?), n. One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of
another.
Truck"man (?), n.; pl. Truckmen (#). 1. [From Truck barter.] One who
does business in the way of barter or exchange.
2. [From Truck a carriage.] One who drives a truck, or whose business
is the conveyance of goods on trucks.
{ Tru"cu*lence (?), Tru"cu*len*cy (?), } n. [L. truculentia.] The
quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners;
ferociousness.
Tru"cu*lent (?), a. [L. truculentus, fr. trux, gen. trucis, wild,
fierce: cf. F. truculent.] 1. Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as,
the truculent inhabitants of Scythia. Ray.