Crossword clues for trucking
trucking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Truck \Truck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trucked; p. pr. & vb. n. trucking.] [OE. trukken,F. troquer; akin to Sp. & Pg. trocar; of uncertain origin.] To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.
We will begin by supposing the international trade to
be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual
trucking of one commodity against another.
--J. S.
Mill.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) trading, bartering. 2 (context US English) the conveyance of freight by trucks. 3 (context broadcasting English) Lateral movement of the camer
v
(present participle of truck English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "trucking".
Jake was trucking down the street with his bottle of La Copita in its paper bag in hand.
Then it would be a matter of slogging through the Washington-area trucking centers, looking for that propane truck.
His exit guide listed only two such facilities on or near the Beltway, not counting trucking terminals.
Clever business, this, a bunch of crooks mooching in as drivers for smaller trucking companies and inserting themselves one hundred percent.
Portland, to the Intermountain, the big trucking company, and be a truck driver.
Usually, on weeknights, Jason had to stay at home with his younger brothers, while their mother worked the evening shift at a trucking firm in Memphis.
Six, seven years ago we were tipped about poachers trucking turtles up to Charlotte from the coast, transferring them on to buyers in New York and D.
Ross ran an overworld liquor distributorship, and had interests in vending machine and trucking businesses.
According to the application form, she would wish to berth in Valencia between June 16 and June 20, take the shipment on board, and proceed straight to Latakia on the coast of Syria, where the consignment would be handed over to the Iraqis for trucking to Baghdad.
And the same song and dance at Paul's Taproom, where they sit on bar stools, because the circular sofa around the big table is fully occupied: trucking men with ladies and interminable stories which even Goldmouth's feted arrival can interrupt only briefly, and that because they feel obliged to say some thing about the dog.
He and Bock had arranged for a commercial trucking company to load the machine tools into a small cargo container which would be loaded on the ship and unloaded onto a Syrian dock in six more days.
They told me I was a dead-ender, either get out of trucking or…" I shrugged.
The Chivas and the Snow White was the best By morning, the four-hundred dollars up front was exhausted and when they went back to the trucking terminal for more money, the honkey wasn't there, but Sweet Harold pulled up in his hog, a white Eldorado and he said their asses would be in New York City by that afternoon or their asses wouldn't be at all.
Only thing that kept me out of trouble in high school was that the jocks knew I knew how to fix cars, and if they beat me up, next time they were stuck out in the parking lot with a fuel-line block or worse, I'd keep right on trucking.
They looked impressive, trucking along out there in front, Onan Moley flanked by Rector and Fallon, but nobody remembered to throw a block.