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A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.

The ball on top of a flagpole.

(Q13479766) (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".

(Australia) A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods ''or'' to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods; (in Malaysia/Singapore) a such vehicle with a closed or covered carriage.

(rail) A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods.

Any smaller wagon or cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.

(rail) ''Abbreviation of (railroad truck) or (wheel truck)''; 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.

📑 Synonyms: bogie q1=British English

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.

(theater) A platform with wheels or casters.

{{cap|dirt}} or other messiness.

To drive a truck.

To convey by truck.

(slang) To travel, to proceed.

(slang) To persist, to endure.

(film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.

(slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.

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

(dialectal) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.

(dialectal) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.

(dialectal) To deceive; cheat; defraud.

(Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).

(trade) To trade, exchange; barter.

To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.

To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

(in the plural) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.

(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 {{w|Truck Acts}}].

(attributive) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).

(with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.

(with negative) Relevance, bearing.