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Truck

noun

An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling. Synonym: motortruck.

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. Synonym: hand truck.

verb

(past & past part. trucked; pres. part. trucking)

Convey (goods etc.) by truck.

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... and slapped his sweating thighs, and Bordman went out in a caterwheel truck, wearing a heat-suit, to watch it for all of twenty minutes. When he got back to the Project Engineer's office he gulped iced salt water and dug out the books he'd brought down from the ship. There was the specbook ...

— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... was ready. The trunks and the big bundle were set out on the front porch for the expressman, and when he came the six little Bunkers, and their father and mother, watched the things being put on the auto truck. ...

— Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's • Laura Lee Hope

... by a sanguine observer from the land of greatest agrarian oppression, must be shaded by contrasting details. The truck system of payment, prevalent in mining regions and many factory towns, reduced the actual wage by almost one-half. In the cities, unskilled immigrants had so overcrowded the common labor market that competition had reduced them to a pitiable state. Hours of labor were generally ...

— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

... proposed that if a hundred families would pay him regularly 50 cents a week, he would undertake to supply them with garden truck, provisions and meats at wholesale prices. To clinch the demonstration he showed that an average family would save this 50-cent weekly fee in ...

— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... requiring raised flooring and special power. Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines. In a famous quote from the 1988 Unix EXPO, Bill Joy compared the liquid-cooled mainframe in the massive IBM display with a grazing dinosaur "with a truck outside pumping its bodily fluids through it". IBM was not amused. Compare {big iron}; see also {mainframe}. 2. [IBM] A very ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

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