truck

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling
noun 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
verb convey (goods etc.) by truck

Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).

"I'm not in the habit of trucking with other people's belongings." — Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, Miles Franklin
Niggers must be sold, and trucked round, and kept under; it’s what they’s made for. — Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lockhart, watching, remarked, "We are having our equipment and supplies flown up to a town twenty miles away and then trucked in." — The Secret of the Ninth Planet, Donald A. Wollheim

motortruck

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