Troak
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /tɹəʊk/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Troak is a verb meaning To barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.
Meaning
To barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.
More Meanings
- To carry out familiar intercourse.
- Barter; exchange; truck.
- Small wares.
- Familiar intercourse.
Example Sentences
What's this for cash your tapster troaks, / That colics and affronts the fowks?
In those days, when Prince and Adam were my heroes, I had no "troakings" with lassies. "Troakings" came afterwards, and these deserve a whole essay to themselves.
She'll not loose the letters that come to her by the King's post, and she must go on troking wi' the old carrier, as if there was no post-house in the neighbourhood.
But as soon as we had driven these same kings and queens into exile, we became tremendously loyal, and kept up constant trokings with the exiled at Carisbrook, in Holland, or drinking to "the king over the water."
Word Forms
- troaks
- troaking
- troaked
- troke
Synonyms for troak
Depending on context, synonyms include swap, swop.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include troke, cope, truck, niffer, chop, excamb.
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