LekhoriLekhoriA small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
“Put that cannon up once, and I'll answer for it that no Injin faces it. 'Twill be as good as a dozen sentinels,” answered Joel. “As for mountin’, I thought of that before I said a syllable about the crittur. There's the new truck-wheels in the court, all ready to hold it, and the carpenters can put the hinder part to the whull, in an hour or two.”
The ball on top of a flagpole.
Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
There was sheds made out of poles and roofed over with branches, where they had lemonade and gingerbread to sell, and piles of watermelons and green corn and such-like truck.
Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós).
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To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
To trade, exchange; barter.
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.