different between truck vs bedford

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??k/, IPA^(key): /t????k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek ?????? (trokhós).

Noun

truck (countable and uncountable, plural trucks)

1. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
   • 1843, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte, Chapter 3

     “Put that cannon up once, and I'll answer for it that no Injin faces it. 'Twill be as good as a dozen sentinels,” answered Joel. “As for mountin’, I thought of that before I said a syllable about the crittur. There's the new truck-wheels in the court, all ready to hold it, and the carpenters can put the hinder part to the whull, in an hour or two.”

2. The ball on top of a flagpole.
4. (nautical) 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".
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 9.

     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?

5. (countable, uncountable, US, Australia) A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (Britain) a lorry.

   Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, Chapter 1

     A line of fifty trucks from the Zenith Steel and Machinery Company was attacked by strikers-rushing out from the sidewalk, pulling drivers from the seats, smashing carburetors and commutators, while telephone girls cheered from the walk, and small boys heaved bricks.
6. Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods.
7. A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
8. A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books.
9. A pantechnicon (removal van).
10. (Britain, rail transport) A flatbed railway car; a flatcar.
    • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 15

      Far away he could hear the sharp clinking of the trucks on the railway.

    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 77, [2]

      Then she went off with Nawnim, past the three coaches provided for superior passengers, to the trucks at the front, where the crowd was entirely black.

11. (US, rail transport) A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track; a bogie.
12. The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
13. (theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
14. Dirt or other messiness.
    • 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter I

      “Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?”

Synonyms

• (motor vehicle for goods transport): rig, tractor trailer, lorry (UK), hauler

Hypernyms

• (motor vehicle for goods transport): vehicle

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• (nautical, sailing) main-truck, crow's nest
• (military) gun-carriage
• (semi-tractor): semi, trailer truck, rig, monster truck

Verb

truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)

1. (intransitive) To drive a truck.

   My father has been trucking for 20 years.

2. (transitive) To convey by truck.

3. (intransitive, US, slang) To travel or live contentedly. [1960s]

4. (intransitive, US, Canada, slang) To persist, to endure. [from 1960s]

5. (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
6. (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
   • 1993, Sue Grafton, "J" Is for Judgment

     Both deputies were big, made of dense flesh and tough experience. . . . I wouldn't have wanted to truck with either one of them.

7. (transitive, slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.

Derived terms

• trucker
• trucking

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English truken, troken, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *trukijan (“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”).

Alternative forms

• trock

Verb

truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)

1. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
3. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To deceive; cheat; defraud.

Derived terms

• trucker
• trucking
• truckle
• trucky

Related terms

• atroke
• troke

Etymology 3

From dialectal truck, truk, trokk, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Norwegian dialectal trokka, trakka (“to stamp, trample, go to and fro”), Danish trykke (“to press, press down, crush, squeeze”), Swedish trycka. More at thrutch.

Verb

truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).

Etymology 4

From Middle English trukien, from unrecorded Anglo-Norman and Old French words (attested in Medieval Latin trocare, Spanish trocar), of unknown origin.

Verb

truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)

2. (transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.

   • 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.

3. (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
4. (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

Translations

Noun

truck (plural trucks)

1. (obsolete, often in the plural) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
2. (historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
3. (US, often attributive) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
4. (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.

Usage notes

For this etymology, the word is virtually obsolete. It really only survives as a fossil in the construction to have no truck with. In the US, the derived term truck garden is often confused with "produce raised to be trucked (transported) to market".

Derived terms

• have no truck with
• truck garden

Dutch

Etymology

From English truck

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tryk/, /tr?k/
• Hyphenation: truck

Noun

truck m (plural trucks, diminutive truckje n)

1. truck, lorry

Derived terms

• truckbestuurder
• trucker

French

Etymology

From English truck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??k/

Noun

truck m (plural trucks)

1. (Canada, Louisiana) truck

Swedish

Etymology

From English truck.

Noun

truck c

1. forklift

Declension