truck

truck is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
2. intransitive verb. A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.
3. intransitive verb. 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. intransitive verb. A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
5. intransitive verb. A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
6. intransitive verb. A freight car.
7. intransitive verb. A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
8. transitive verb. To transport on a truck or trucks.
9. transitive verb. To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.
10. intransitive verb. To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.
11. noun. Exchange of commodities; barter.
12. noun. Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.
13. noun. The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.
14. 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
15. noun. an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

    Synonyms: motortruck

16. verb. convey (goods etc.) by truck

    "truck fresh vegetables across the mountains"

Synonyms

motortruck

Common word forms

trucks, trucked, trucker, truckful, trucking, truckable

Words from these letters

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