truck

1. truck (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.

Example: “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.”

2. truck (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The ball on top of a flagpole.

3. truck (noun) — sense 3

Definition: 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".

Example: But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?

4. truck (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To drive a truck.

Example: My father has been trucking for 20 years.

5. truck (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To convey by truck.

Example: Last week, Cletus trucked 100 pounds of lumber up to Dubuque.

6. truck (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To travel, to proceed.

Example: I want to tell you a story from 'way back: / Truck on down and gig me, jack / In eighteen hundred and sixty-five / A hep cat started some jive / He said, "Come on, gates, and jump with me / At the Juneteenth Jamboree."