Truck Meaning
/tɹʌk/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
nounThe ball on top of a flagpole.
Sentence Examples
Look out! There's a truck coming!
Round the corner came a large truck.
The car was completely crushed under the truck.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The delivery driver drove the large ____ full of boxes to the store.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A large ____ was used to deliver all the new furniture to the office early this morning after the move today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- Proto-Indo-European *drem-influ. Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō) Ancient Greek -ῐ́λος (-ĭ́los) Ancient Greek τροχῐ́λος (trokhĭ́los) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek -είᾱ (-eíā) Ancient Greek τροχῐλείᾱ (trokhĭleíā)der. Medieval Latin trochleader. Anglo-Norman troclebor. Middle English trokel English truckle? English truck Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"“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.”"
— 1843, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 3, in Wyandotte:
"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?"
— 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
"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."
— 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 1, in Babbit:
"That's why driving truck became more than a job for many in the industry. Driving truck was a lifestyle."
— 2009, James Beach, Peterbilt: Long-Haul Legend, page 48:
"Goods were therefore conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs."
— 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The delivery driver drove the large ____ full of boxes to the store.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A large ____ was used to deliver all the new furniture to the office early this morning after the move today.