Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Truck \Truck\, n. [L. trochus an iron hoop, Gr. ? a wheel, fr. ? to run. See Trochee, and cf. Truckle, v. i.]
A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
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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. (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.
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(Naut.)
A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
A freight car. [Eng.]
A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
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a motorized vehicle larger than an automobile with a compartment in front for the driver, behind which is a separate compartment for freight; esp.
such a vehicle with an inflexible body.
A vehicle with a short body and a support for attaching a trailer; -- also called a tractor[4].
the combination of tractor and trailer, also called a tractor-trailer (a form of articulated vehicle); it is a common form of truck, and is used primarily for hauling freight on a highway.
a tractor with more than one trailer attached in a series. In Australia, often referred to as a road train.
Wiktionary
n. A large truck consisting of an engine and cab section (the tractor) and a cargo carrying semi-trailer or trailer.
Usage examples of "tractor-trailer".
He was a solid, churchgoing man with a proclaimed passion for the United States, and a streak of cruelty wide enough to accommodate a tractor-trailer.
He rolled up the window to avoid the dust storm that arrived along with the deafening blast of an air horn as the tractor-trailer loaded with sawlogs went speeding by.
For example, he has taken his BW program mobile by breaking it up into small, self-contained units that fit into the back of generic tractor-trailers and can be driven all over the country.
He didn't like the job with an amateur doing the fingering and five guys cutting up a fifty-thousand-dollar pie after the finger's ten per cent and the bankroller's two-for-one were already taken out, and with the job already requiring two tractor-trailers and a car.
Like the other briefers, he referred to a large map covered with clear plastic sheets that took up the entire wall of the expandable tractor-trailer van which served as the corps briefing area.
It obviously was a converted commercial tractor-trailer, with duralloy armor plating riveted in place and a forest of antennae on top.
They met a continuous taxi-rank of low-loader tractor-trailers, each of which would carry a tank or other armored fighting vehicle to the front lines.
So, Abdullah watched the police car pull ahead until it faded from view, and he settled down to watching tractor-trailers whiz past while he cruised eastward at a steady sixty-five miles and three cigarettes per hour, plus a grumbling stomach.
Grogs, Jamaicans, and the Thunderbolt's sailors were strewn in broken pieces everywhere on the deck like mannequins run over by a tractor-trailer, under blood-splashed quickwood branches.
Ten meters from the spacers, the tractor-trailers swung broadside and halted.
There was hardly any local traffic on the road this far from the citya few tractor-trailers on their way to and from the fishing villages on the coast and almost nothing elseand anyway the crawler's computer did most of the driving.
There were other vehicles on the roadbig tractor-trailers going empty out to the farms and coming back laden with crates of vegetables and fruits and bins of grain.
An extra-wide two-lane asphalt road had been laid down across the scrubland, and more than a dozen tractor-trailers used it every day to bring in more tons of construction material and equipment.
An extra wide two-lane asphalt road had been laid down across the scrubland, and more than a dozen tractor-trailers used it every day to bring in more tons of construction material and equipment.
Lainie suddenly screamed, and she grabbed for the wheel as a tractor-trailer truck roared over a hill in front of us, its grille filling Big Dick’.