Word Finder - truck

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

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The ball on top of a flagpole.

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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".

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A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; a lorry.

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Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.

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Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods.

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A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.

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A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books.

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A pantechnicon (removal van).

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A flatbed railway car; a flatcar.

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A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track; a bogie.

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The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.

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A platform with wheels or casters.

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Dirt or other messiness.

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To drive a truck: Generally a truck driver's slang.

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To convey by truck.

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

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To travel or live contentedly.

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Keep on trucking!

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To persist, to endure.

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Keep on trucking!

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(film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.

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To fight or otherwise physically engage with.

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To run over or through a tackler in American football.

The blue truck was nowhere in sight.

As the truck came to a halt in front of the house, she stared up at it in awe.

He led her to his truck and opened the door, helping her into the truck.

He parked the truck in front of the house and headed down the hill.

I'm going to leave my truck here so you'll have something to drive.

A truck just pulled up.

She stood beside Alex and listened to the truck door slam and the engine race when Josh started it.

He put the box behind the seat in the truck and climbed in, laying the picture beside him.

He reached into his pocket for the truck keys.

Behind her, Josh roared his engine as he turn the truck around, and slung gravel on the road as he took off.

The phone slammed in his ear like a truck backfiring.

Harry Turnball was a young and energetic truck driver who delivered the Parkside Sentinel.

I just rented this joint for a place to sleep—after I totaled my truck and couldn't get home easy.

He did, however, find a sales ad for a truck camper that was sold about that time.

Dean woke up feeling as if a truck had hit him, backed up and rolled over him a couple more times just to make sure.

He can't drive the truck and ride his bike at the same time.

But a blue truck is a start, that's all I'm saying.

Alex had insisted on driving his truck.

Josh pulled his truck through the gate and leaped out, grabbing his shotgun from the rack behind the seat.

Go to a truck stop—out of town where they don't know me.

They reached a compromise and Baratto began to half-tell his story until Dean found an all-night truck stop, miles north of Parkside.

Say Cleary rented the place innocently—he's a coast-to-coast truck driver or something and needs a temporary place, just like Burgess.

He managed to get a slow-moving truck between them on a winding road and nearly lost them until the road widened near Scranton.

He asked me to drop off his gear at the sag wagon tomorrow morning so it gets hauled to Alamosa on the truck.

They cleaned the room, folded the chairs and carried the gifts out to his truck.

When the gifts were all packed in the truck, Carmen left Alex at the truck and went back in to thank Mums and those who had remained at the house.

After thanking Mums, Carmen returned to the truck and waited while Alex opened the door for her.

His step was brisk as he walked around to the other side, but when he climbed into the truck, his expression was bland.

As he maneuvered the truck through muddy ruts in the drive, she covertly studied his profile.

He pulled into the yard, put the truck in park and turned off the engine.

He stepped over to the truck and opened the door.

She climbed into the truck and remained silent until they got to her house.

The truck lights stayed on the door while she unlocked it, and for several minutes after she was inside with the door closed.

For a few minutes she was afraid he would come to the door, but finally the truck turned around and left the yard.

She watched as his truck left the yard.

The bake lights came on briefly as he slowed down for the bridge and then the truck disappeared into a cloud of tawny dust.

So absorbed was she in thought that she didn't notice the gray truck parked in her yard until she opened the gate.

A white truck pulled into the yard but Josh didn't look that way.

He took the steps two at a time and strode to his truck without acknowledging Alex.

Backing the truck around, he threw gravel from the rear tires as he took off.

As it approached time for Alex to get off work the first day, she kept watch on the driveway for his truck.

The sight of the white dodge ram truck threw her pulse into high gear.

Walk me to the truck.

Carmen followed him out to the truck, eagerly allowing him to draw her into an embrace.

It was dark there beside the truck, and for a moment he simply held her close.

At the door she stopped and watched his truck go down the road – watched the tail lights get bright as he stopped on the main road, and then watched them fade down the highway.

As she watched him climb into his truck, she decided that she could tell him in the morning.

Again she watched his truck fade away into the darkness.

Through the living room window Carmen saw a white truck slow down to pull in the drive.

As he backed the truck out of the drive, a thought occurred to her.