2. A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods,
stone, and other heavy articles.
Goods were conveyed about the town almost
exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. --Macaulay.
3. (Railroad Mach.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a
frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary
boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a
locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England.
Trucks usually have four or six wheels.
4. (Naut.)
(a) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a
masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards
through.
(b) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or
disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
6. A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various
purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of
trucking with them. --Palfrey.
Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster.
--Burke.
To truck and higgle for a private good. --Emerson.
2. Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade;
small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden
vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
3. The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; --
called also {truck system}.
{Garden truck}, vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U.
S.]
{Truck farming}, raising vegetables for market: market
gardening. [Colloq. U. S.]
We will begin by supposing the international trade to
be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual
trucking of one commodity against another. --J. S.
Mill.
These men were bound in their coats, their hosen,
and their hats, and their other garments. --Dan.
iii. 21.
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For
his shrunk shank. --Shak.
2. Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a
stocking or stockings.
3. A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other
material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water,
from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.
{Hose carriage}, {cart}, or {truck}, a wheeled vehicle fitted
for conveying hose for extinguishing fires.
{Hose company}, a company of men appointed to bring and
manage hose in the extinguishing of fires. [U.S.]
{Hose coupling}, coupling with interlocking parts for uniting
hose, end to end.
{Hose wrench}, a spanner for turning hose couplings, to unite
or disconnect them.