Truck Carrying Trʌk Vehicle Cattle Extra Examples Noun

• a truck driver
• a 10-ton truck
• scott got a full time job driving a truck.
• a cattle truck

truck

1. a large vehicle for carrying heavy loads by road
• SEE ALSO trailer truck
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/trailer-truck
• a truck driver
• a 10-ton truck
• Scott got a full time job driving a truck.

Extra Examples

• A convoy of heavy trucks rumbled past.
• A tanker truck filled with gas exploded on the highway.
2. an open railway vehicle for carrying goods or animals
• a cattle truck

Extra Examples

• The truck came loose from the engine and began to roll backwards.
• The only way of getting out of the city was in a cattle truck.
• An ammunition truck exploded just yards from the station.
• a truck load of grain
3. a vehicle that is open at the back, used for carrying goods, soldiers, animals, etc.
• SEE ALSO breakdown truck
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/breakdown-truck
• a delivery/farm truck
• a dump/tow/armoured truck
• They heard a truck pull up outside.

Extra Examples

• The soldiers were travelling in the back of the truck.
• a truck carrying sacks of vegetables
• Zach was playing with a toy truck on the floor.
• She heard the truck parking in front of the building.
• The bus crashed into a truck loaded with timber.
4. a vehicle for carrying things, that is pulled or pushed by hand
5. to refuse to deal with somebody; to refuse to accept or consider something
• We in this party will have no truck with illegal organizations.
• Dave wants no truck with change. For him, things are just fine as they are.

Word Origin

• Middle English (denoting a solid wooden wheel): perhaps short for truckle in the sense ‘wheel, pulley’. The sense ‘wheeled vehicle’ dates from the late 18th cent.