truck-farmer 
truck-farmer (truk'f ar'mfer), n. A farmer who 
raises vegetables, fruits, etc., for the market; 
a market-gardener on a large scale. [U. S.] 
truck-house (tnik'hous), . A house erected 
for the storage of goods, used by early English 
settlers in America in trading with the Indians. 
trucking-house (truk'ing-hous), . Same as 
truck-house. 
The French came In a pinnace to Penobscot, and rifled 
a trucking-house belonging to Plimouth. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 94. 
truck-jack (truk'jak), n. A lifting-jack sus- 
pended from a truck-axle, and used to lift logs 
or other heavy objects for loading upon low- 
bodied sleds or wagons. E. B. Knight. 
truckle (truk'l), . [Early mod. E. troccle, < 
ME. "trokcl, trookyl (in comp.), < ML. troclea, 
a small wheel, a wheel of a pulley, a pulley, < 
L. troclea, trochlea, a sheaf, pulley, < (Jr. rpox'- 
Afa, Tpnx^ia, a pulley, < rpo^uf, a wheel : see 
trochus, and of. trochlea, trochilus 2 . Cf. truck 2 , 
as related to trochus.] If. A wheel of a pulley ; 
also, a pulley. 
Jabol, a truckle or pullie. . . . Moujle, a truckle for a pul- 
lie. Co/grave. 
2. A small wheel or caster. Sterne, Tristram 
Shandy, ii. 200. 3. A small flat cheese. 
[Prov. Eng.] 4. A truckle-bed. Scott, Abbot, 
I. 236. 
Where be those kitchinstuffes here? shall we have 
no attendants? shew these Gentlemen into a close roorae, 
with a standing bed in 't, and a truckle too ; you are wel- 
come, Gentlemen. 
Heywood, Royal King (Works, ed. 1874, VI. 46> 
truckle (truk'l), . ; pret. and pp. truckled, ppr. 
truckling. [< truckle, n,"] I. trans. To move 
on rollers or casters ; trundle. 
Tables with two legs and chairs without bottoms were 
truckled from th& middle to one end of the room. 
Miss Burney, Camilla, iii. IS. (Dames.) 
II. intrans. If. To sleep in a truckle-bed. 
See truckle, n., 4, and truckle-bed. 
Drawer. Now you are up, sir, will you go to bed ? 
Pedro. I'll truckle here, boy ; give me another pillow. 
Beau, and Fl., Coxcomb, i. 6. 
Hence 2. To be tamely subordinate, as a pu- 
pil to his tutor, or a servant to his master ; yield 
or bend obsequiously to the will of another; 
submit ; cringe ; act in a servile manner : usu- 
ally with to or under. 
He will never, while he lives, truckle under any body or 
any faction, but do just as his own reason and judgment 
directs; and, when he cannot use that freedom, he will 
have nothing to do in public affairs. 
Pepys, Diary, III. 237. 
The government truckles, condescends to cajole them, 
and drops all prosecution of their crimes. 
Franklin, Autobiog., p. 333. 
truckle-bed (truk'1-bed), . [Early mod. E. 
trocclebed; < ME. trookylbed; < truckle + bed 1 . 
Cf. trundle-bed, a diff. word of equiv. meaning.] 
A bed the frame of which runs on wheels ; es- 
pecially, one which is low enough to be wheeled 
under a high or standing bed, remaining there 
during the day, and rolled out for use at night ; 
a trundle-bed. The truckle-bed was formerly 
appropriated to a servant or subordinate, and 
also to children. 
There 's his chamber, his house, his castle, his standing- 
bed and truckle-bed. Shak., M. W. of W. , iv. 6. 7. 
Well, go thy ways, for as sweet a breasted page as ever 
lay at his master's feet in a truckle-bed. 
Middleton, More Dissemblers besides Women, i. 4. 
First, that he lie upon the truckle-bed, 
While his young master lieth o'er his head. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, ii. 6. 
Augustus . . . slept on a truckle bed without hangings. 
Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, 3d ser., p. 264. 
truckle-cheese (truk'1-chez), n. Same as 
truckle, 3. 
truckler (truk'ler), TO. [< truckle + -er 1 .'] One 
who truckles or yields obsequiously to the will 
of another. 
Let him call me truckler. Tennyson, Queen Mary, iii. 4. 
truckling (truk'ling), p. a. Apt to truckle; 
cringing; fawning; slavish; servile; also, char- 
acteristic of a truckler: as, a truckling expe- 
dient. 
They were subdued and insulted by Alexander's cap- 
tains, and continued under several revolutions a small 
truckling state. Swift, Nobles and Commons, ii. 
truckman 1 (truk'man), . ; pi. truckmen (-men). 
[< truck 1 + man.'] One who trucks or exchanges. 
truckman 2 (truk'man), n.; pi. truckmen (-men). 
[< truck 2 + man.~\ A truck-driver; a carter or 
carman, 
truck-master (truk'mas'ter), n. An officer 
charged with the supervision of trade with the 
American Indians. Compare truck-house. 
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truck-pot (truk'pot), n. Same as track-pot. 
truck-shop (truk'shop), n. A shop conducted 
on the truck systemj a tommy-shop. 
truck-store (truk'stor), n. Same as truck-shop. 
A/i/ili Inn's Ann. Cyc., 1886, p. 84. 
trucos (tro'kos), . [Sp.: see trucks.] A game. 
See truck 3 . Prescott. 
truculence (tro'ku-lens or truk'u-lens),w. [<L. 
tritculentia, < truculcntus, truculent: see trucu- 
lent."} The state or character of being trucu- 
lent ; savageness of manners and appearance ; 
ferociousness ; ferocity. 
truculency (tro'ku-len-si or truk'u-len-si), . 
[< truculence (see -cy).] Same as truculence. 
He loves not tyranny ; . . . the truculency of the sub- 
ject who transacts this he approves not. 
Waterhouse, On Fortescue (1663X p. 184. 
truculent (tro'ku-lent or truk'u-lent), a. [< OF. 
truculent = Sp. Pg. It. trucuicn'io, < L. tnicu- 
lentus, fierce, savage, ferocious, < trux (true-), 
fierce, wild.] 1. Fierce; savage; barbarous. 
A barbarous Scythia, where the savage and truculent 
inhabitants . . . live upon milk, and flesh roasted in the 
sun. /.'"//. 
2. Inspiring terror; ferocious. 
The trembling boy his brethren's hands. 
Their truculent aspects, and servile bands, 
Beheld. Sandys, Christ's Passion. 
3. Cruel ; destructive. 
Pestilential seminaries, according to their grossness or 
subtility, cause more or less truculent plagues, some of 
such malignity that they enecate in two hours. 
Harvey, The Plague. 
truculently (tro'ku-leut-li or truk'u-lent-li), 
adv. In a truculent manner ; fiercely ; destruc- 
tively. 
Trudeau's tern. See tern 1 . 
trudge 1 (truj), v. i.; pret. and pp. trudged, ppr. 
trudging. [Formerly also tridge; origin obscure. 
Connection with tread, unless by confusion with 
drudge 1 , is impossible. Skeat suggests as the 
prob. source Sw. dial, truga = Norw. truga = 
Icel. thruga, snow-shoe.] To make one's way 
on foot; walk; travel on foot; especially, to 
travel wearily or laboriously on foot. 
Thence dyd I trudge hoamward, too learne yf slm haplye 
returned. Stanihurst, Knft<l, ii. 
Nay, if you fall to fainting, 
'Tis time for me to trudge. 
Fletcher (and Massingerl), Lovers' Progress, i. 2. 
He was a faithful, affectionate, simple soul as ever 
trudged after the heels of a philosopher. 
Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 33. 
trudge 1 (truj), n. [< trudge 1 , .] A weary or 
laborious walk or tramp. [Colloq.] 
We set out for the two miles' trudge to Doughtown. 
Arch. Forbes, in Eng. Illust Mag., Aug., 1884, p. 698. 
trudge 2 t (truj), n. [Abbr.- of trudgeman.~\ An 
interpreter. 
One thing said twice (as we say commonly) deserueth a 
trudge. liyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 137. 
trudgemant, n. See trucliman. 
true (tro), a. [Early mod. E. also trew, trcwe; 
< ME. true, truwc, treue, trewe, trine, treowe, < 
AS. treowe, trywe (also getreowe, getrywe) = OS. 
triuici = OFries. triuwe = D. trouw = MLG. truwe, 
LG. trou = OHG. "triuwi, MHG. triuwe, G. treu 
(also OHG. gitriuwi, MHG. getriuwe, G. getreu) 
= Icel. tryggr, trur = Sw. trogen = Dan. tro = 
Goth, triggws, true; from a root (Teut. T/ tru, 
Aryan -y/ dru) seen also in trow 1 , trust, etc., and 
in OPruss. druwi, druwis, faith, druwit, believe. 
Hence ult. true, n., truce, truth, troth, etc. Cf. 
also trow 1 , trust 1 , and trig.'] 1. Conformable 
to fact; being in accordance with the actual 
state of things; not false, fictitious, or errone- 
ous : as, a true story ; a true statement. 
Sum Men seyn that the! ben Sepultures of grete Lordea, 
that weren somtyme ; but that is not trewe. 
MandevUle, Travels, p. 52. 
What proposition is there respecting human nature 
which is absolutely and universally true? 
Macaulay, Mill on Government. 
[True in this sense is often used elliptically for that is true, 
or it is true. 
True, 1 have married her. Shak., Othello, i. 3. 79. 
Cham. Your only road now, sir, is York, York, sir. 
Green. True, but yet it comes scant of the prophecy : 
Lincoln was, London is, and York shall be. 
Dekker and Webster, Northward Ho, i. 1.] 
2. Conformable to reason or to established rules 
or custom; exact; just; accurate; correct. 
They were all illiterate men ; the ablest of them could 
not write true English no, not common words. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 175. 
Apelles drew 
A Circle regularly true. 
Prior, Protogenes and Apelles. 
A translation nicely '/" to the original. Arbuthnttt. 
true 
It is not always that its [the trumpet's] notes are either 
true or tuneful. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xii. 
3. Conformable to law and justice; legitimate; 
rightful : as, the true heir. 
An oath is of no moment, being not took 
Before a true and lawful magistrate. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., i. 2. 23. 
4. Conformable to nature ; natural ; correct. 
No shape so true, no truth of such account. 
Shak., Sonnets, Ixii. 
5. In biol. : (a) Conforming or conformable to 
a type, norm, or standard of structure; typi- 
cal : as, an amoeba is a true animal ; a canary 
is a true bird ; the lion is a true cat ; a frog or 
toad is not a true reptile. (I) Genuine ; true- 
bred; not hybrid or mongrel: as, a true merino 
sheep. Also used adverbially: as, to breed 
true. 6. Genuine; pure; real; not counter- 
feit, adulterated, false, or pretended. 
For vntnie praise neuer giueth any true reputation. 
Puttenhatn, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 22. 
Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 639. 
Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, 
And teach that truth is truest poetry. Cowley. 
7. In anat., complete; perfected: as, true ribs 
(that is, those which articulate with the breast- 
bone, as distinguished from false or floating 
ribs) ; the true pelvis (that part of the pelvis 
below the superior strait or iliopectineal line); a 
true corpus luteum (the complete corpus luteum 
of pregnancy, as distinguished from the same 
body unaffected by the result of conception). 
8. Free from falsehood; habitually speaking 
the truth; veracious; truthful. 
Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the 
way of God in truth. Mat. xxii. 16. 
I am too plain and true to be suspected. 
Fletcher, Valentinian, iv. 2. 
9. Firm or steady in adhering to promises, to 
friends, to one's principles, etc. ; not fickle, 
false, or perfidious ; faithful ; constant ; loyal . 
Ne noon may be trewe to hym-self but he first be trewe 
to God. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 55. 
Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle ; 
Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty. 
Shak., Passionate Pilgrim, 1. 86. 
There is no such Treasure as a true Friend. 
Jlowell, Letters, I. vi. 56. 
A mercenary Jilt, and true to no Man. 
Wycherley, Plain Dealer, Prol. 
He had seen the path of duty plain before him. Through 
good and evil he was to be true to Church and king. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
10. Honest. 
For why a trewe man, withouten drede, 
Hath nat to parten with a theves dede. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 464. 
Rich preys make true men thieves. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 724. 
11. Sure; unerring; unfailing. 
At first she appear'd in Rage and Disdain, the truest 
Sign of a coming Woman ; But at last you prevail'd, it 
seems ; did you not? Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iv. 1. 
Identically true. See identically. Out Of true, not 
exact or true as to relation of lines or adjustment of parts. 
To come true. See come. True apogee. Use apogee, 
1. True as toucht. See touch. True bill, in law, a 
bill of indictment indorsed by a grand jury, after inves- 
tigation, as containing a well-founded accusation. True 
course, croup, discount, error, horizon, etc. See 
course^, 5,croupi, etc. True place of a star or planet, 
in astron., the place which a star or planet would be 
seen to occupy if the effects of refraction, parallax, aber- 
ration, and equation of light were removed, or the place 
which it would occupy if viewed from the earth's center, 
supposing the rays coming from it to move with infinite 
velocity and not to be subject to refraction. Sometimes 
only refraction and parallax are supposed removed. 
True suture, vein, etc. See the nouns. = Syn. 1. Veri- 
table, actual. See reality. Sand 9. Sincere, honorable. 
truet (tro), n. [< ME. truwe, tru, trewe, < AS. 
trcov), also treowa, truwa, truth, faith, fidelity, 
compact, = OS. trewa = OFries. triuwe = MLG. 
truwe, trouwe, LG. troue = OHG. triuwa, MHG. 
triuwe, G. treue = Sw. Dan. tro, truth, faithful- 
ness, = Goth, triggwa, a covenant (> It. tregua 
= Sp. tregua = Pg. trcgoa = Pr. tregua = OF. 
trive, trieve, F. treve, a truce ; cf. treague) ; from 
the adj., AS. treowe, etc., true, faithful: see 
true, a. Hence the plural trues, now truce as 
a singular.] 1. Truth; fidelity. 2. Agree- 
ment; covenant; pledge. 
He seide that he yede to seche treun/s of the princes and 
the barouns from the kynge Arthur that the Saisnes myght 
be driven oute of the londe. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 546. 
Leages and trues made by princes, ... to the breache 
where of none excuse is sufficient 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, iii. 6. 
3. A temporary cessation of war, according to 
agreement; respite from war ; truce. See tn'<: 
In tyme of (rare on haukynge wolde he ryde. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 1779. 
