Crossword clues for trekked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trek \Trek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trekked; p. pr. & vb. n. Trekking.] [Written also treck.] [D. trekken. See Track, n.] [South Africa]
To draw or haul a load, as oxen.
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To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. [Chiefly South Africa]
One of the motives which induced the Boers of 1836 to trek out of the Colony.
--James Bryce.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: trek)
WordNet
n. a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)
any long and difficult trip
v. journey on foot, especially in the mountains; "We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas"
make a long and difficult journey; "They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis"
See trek
Usage examples of "trekked".
If she d trekked through the forest for any distance-and from the look of her she had-she was probably feeling the aftereffects of shock.
Natal from this time onward became a British colony, and the majority of the Boers trekked north and east with bitter hearts to tell their wrongs to their brethren of the Orange Free State and of the Transvaal.
Nobody had made any obvious effort to organize one, but as the sun sank and the flint diggers and flint knappers trekked in from the quarries, and the gardeners from the fields, and the hunters came over the mountain carrying the huge joints of huge beasts, and children swarmed in from the scrubby woodland bowed under bundles of brushwood, it had become evident that a consensus on this point had somehow been reached.
Into this district Kritzinger and his men trekked after they were driven from the Colony in July, and many small skirmishes and snipings among the mountains showed that the Boer resistance was still alive.
Sighing heavily, and abandoning the fish fingers, profiteroles and ice cream on the floor of the wine cellar, Pandora trekked up eight flights of stairs to the Schloss attic, a vast family museum of a loft space, full of dust and cobwebs, home to generations of spiders, woodworms and roosting bats.
The monk merely requisitioned a runner boy who, for the price of fifty rupees, put on his adidas, got his second wind, and trekked the twenty miles or so to the Lukla airstrip, where he placed the charred, unreadable pages on the first flight to Kathmandu with instructions that a new copy of the enclosed be photocopied and returned by the next available Himalayan Air taxi.
Yes, John and Peter trekked to Samaria , but the ministries of the apostles remained intact in Jerusalem for this period of time.
The bandits broke camp and trekked into the desert just as the sun rose.
A more heroic image was provided by a pen drawing of him swathed in desert robes as he trekked through the rocky pass toward Boral Lake.
Imarte was away on one of her sleepovers at the Bella Union, thankfully, and Oscar had trekked far afield on his quest for a buyer for the Criterion Patented Brassbound Pie Safe.
I hammered on the lock, but it wouldn't break loose, so I trekked back to my apartment and got some deicer and a plastic scraper.
She has trekked the wilds of Boogaboo Canyon, walked in the past surrounded by the whispered voices of Captain Atoka and Eliza Flack.
The Krugers trekked from the injustice of having their slaves turned free, from the English black circuit courts, from judges who did not speak their language, from taxes levied on land that was theirs and from the foreign troops who seized their beloved herds to pay those taxes.
Jews, freed from death camps in Poland, trekked west to attempt to get to Palestine, the only door open to them.
In different pictures he rappelled off cliffs, trekked the Urals, kayaked through white water.