truck

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Betekenis (English)

1. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
2. The ball on top of a flagpole.
3. On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
4. A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
5. A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
6. A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
7. Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
8. Abbreviation of railroad truck or wheel truck; a pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track.
9. The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
10. A platform with wheels or casters.
11. Dirt or other messiness.

autotruck

towing engine

heavy goods vehicle

gondola car

luggage-van

motor truck

tractor trailer

ten - wheeled truck

ten wheeler

cargo truck

load carrier

small wagon

trucking rig

articulated lorry

to barter

auto truck

motor lorry

motorlorry

cargo vehicle

truck section

straight job

load-carrying vehicle

goods vehicle

barter goods

delivery truck

drive around

Frekwensie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/tɹʌk/

Inherited from Middle English

truken

Inherited from Old English

trucian

Cognate with Middle Low German

troggelen

Cognate with Nederlands

troggelen

Cognate with Duits

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Cognate with Noors

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Cognate with Deens

trykke

Cognate with Sweeds

trycka

Inherited from Middle English

trukien

In summary

Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).

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Sinne

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The Widows charge the garbage truck , but Orville gets away .