The Collaborative International Dictionary
Truck \Truck\, n. [Cf. F. troc.]
Exchange of commodities; barter.
--Hakluyt.Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
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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.]
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) The relatively small-scale growing of vegetables for market.
WordNet
n. growing vegetables for the market
Usage examples of "truck farming".
It's in the basin of the Arkansas River, so it always has plenty of green grass, but unlike a lot of the other land around there it hasn't been converted to truck farming yet.
Over the centuries truck farming had become quite sophisticated, with regular routes and a whole guild of middlemen doing the shipping to and from the markets on a daily basis.
There were only five cities plus the capital worth the name in Ambreza, and maybe forty small towns spread all over, but the two basic occupations of those in the country were raising crops for export and truck farming.
Some farming did go on to the east and west, primarily semi-automated truck farming which supplied the bureaucracy with its meat, poultry, and dairy products as well as its fresh fruit and vegetables.
At any rate, the Japanese, with their driving industry, had just about achieved a monopoly in truck farming, involving a great deal of hand labor.