noun / verb
truck
TRUHK/trʌk/
A wheeled carrier for moving loads.
A delivery truck brings fresh produce to the market.
Etymology
Probably connected with Latin “iron hoop,” truck first meant a small solid wheel or roller. The name expanded from the wheel to a heavy-load cart, then to a motor vehicle carrying loads.
In context
The driver turned his large flatbed truck carrying two bundles of rebar into the entrance of the Mason Physics facility in Los Alamos.
More examples
- She wheels the refrigerator outside on a hand truck.
- Local farms truck their vegetables to the city.
- We keep trucking along the trail despite the rain.
Forms
truck · trucks · trucked · trucking
trucker noun — A person who drives trucks professionally.