What does truck mean?
Truck means A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage..
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/tɹʌk/ · noun
A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage..
“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.”
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?
We rented a truck big enough to carry the whole load in one trip.
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.
That's why driving truck became more than a job for many in the industry. Driving truck was a lifestyle.
Goods were therefore conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs.
He closed the door, locked it, and took out the key in readiness. When Mr Lidmarsh returned with the water he found Carrados seated on a market truck.
From the doors of these rooms went men with loaded trucks, to the platform where freight cars were waiting to be filled; and one went out there and realized with a start that he had come at last to the ground floor of this enormous building.
Use truck when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Truck means A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage..
Common synonyms include lorry, goods wagon, freight wagon, goods carriage.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“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.”
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