Sunday 22 January 2012

Truck and axle

truck1

  1.  Any of various heavy motor vehicles designed for carrying or pulling loads.
  2. A hand truck.
  3. A wheeled platform, sometimes equipped with a motor, for conveying loads in a warehouse or freight yard.
  4. One of the swiveling frames of wheels under each end of a railroad car or trolley car.
  5. A set of bookshelves mounted on four wheels or casters, used in libraries.
  6. Nautical. A small piece of wood placed at the top of a mast or flagpole, usually having holes through which halyards can be passed.
  7. Chiefly British. A railroad freight car without a top.

truck2

v., trucked, truck·ing, trucks.
v.tr.
  1. To exchange; barter.
  2. To peddle.
v.intr.
To have dealings or commerce; traffic.

n.
  1. Articles of commerce; trade goods.
  2. Garden produce raised for the market.
  3. Informal. Worthless goods; stuff or rubbish: "Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?" (Mark Twain).
  4. Barter; exchange.
  5. Informal. Dealings; business: We'll have no further truck with them.


axle

n.
  1. A supporting shaft or member on or with which a wheel or a set of wheels revolves.
    1. The spindle of an axletree.
    2. Either end of an axletree.