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▪ I. trek, n. orig. S. Afr.|trɛk|
[a. Cape Du. trek = Du. trek draw, pull, tug, march, f. trekken, trek v.]
1. a. S. Afr. In travelling by ox-wagon, a stage of a journey between one stopping-place and the next; hence, a journey or expedition made in this way; also, journeying or travel by ox-wagon.
(Cf. trek-tow occurring in 1834.)
1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Africa II. 1 First day's ‘trek’ in lower Albany. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vii. 233, I joined Swartz..and went with him to Letloche, about fourteen days' trek. 1906Harper's Mag. June 30/2 Distances in Africa are not reckoned by miles, but by treks or days.
(b) Now in gen. use elsewhere, a long journey or expedition, esp. one overland involving considerable physical effort.
1941I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang i. 6 Risky treks against hazards different from those of the general Australian bush. 1968R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 168 There they made camp, cached their canoe and load, and sorted out what they wanted to take for their next overland trek—this time a hunting trip. 1972D. Craig Double Take i. 8 The trekking lesson always ended like this... The other members of the trek looked at Brian.
b. S. Afr. An organized migration or expedition by ox-wagon.
1890Times (weekly ed.) 28 Feb. 17/3 The proclamation of President Kruger forbidding the formation of a ‘trek’ to enter Mashonaland. 1901Scotsman 8 Mar. 6/2 There had been a Boer trek into German South-west Africa, but it was only on a small scale. 1901Daily Chron. 30 May 3/2 The men above-mentioned, or their sons,..led the great trek of 1836–9.
c. transf. and fig.
1895J. G. Millais Breath fr. Veldt v. 102 A big troop of guinea-fowls..following each other in their afternoon trek to the water. Ibid. vi. 123 From the sun-parched wilderness of Africa to art criticism is a big trek. 1902Cornish Naturalist Thames 67 The first [birds] to begin the ‘trek’ down the river are the early broods of water-wagtails.
2. attrib. and Comb., as trek-cattle, trek-ox; trek Boer, (a) a Boer who moved his family and grazing stock from place to place; (b) = Voortrekker; also, a participant in a later migration of Afrikaners; trek-bok, pl. bokke(n), an antelope, esp. a springbok, in a migrating herd; trek-cart, a light cart used by (boy) scouts for transporting stores, etc.; trek chain = trek-tow; trek-farmer = trek Boer (a) above; trek fever, an insatiable longing for travelling or wandering in the veld; trek-net = seine n.1; hence trek-netter; trek path, a right of way across the land of another farmer; trek-rope = trek-tow; trek sheep, sheep driven or carried a long way for pasturage.
1835A. Steedman Wanderings S. Afr. II. iii. iii. 53 The next day we met a *Trek Boor, with his cattle. 1847in C. Pettman Africanderisms (1913) 513 All the most intelligent of the Trek Boers whom I have seen, look forward with dread to the course the Government are pursuing. 1882C. du Val With Show through Southern Afr. I. 106 Abolition of slavery was the primary cause of the movement of these ‘trek Boers’. 1929D. Reitz Commando xxiv. 281 We moved north through country thinly occupied by Nomad Boers (Trek Boers), who spend their lives going from one well to another with their flocks. 1941C. W. de Kiewiet Hist. S. Afr. 17 When the Trekboers entered it with their flocks and tented wagons, they left the current of European life. 1981Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 159/2 The Afrikaner remains, according to Lambley, the atavistic, insular, racially arrogant trekboer.
1824S. Afr. Jrnl. I. 72 On the approach of the *Trek-Bokken or migrating spring-boks, the grazier makes up his mind to look for pasturage elsewhere. 1827G. Thompson Trav. & Adv. S. Afr. ii. vi. 274 The destructive flocks of trek⁓bokken, or migratory springboks, pressed by the long droughts, occasionally inundate the northern parts of the Colony. 1896H. A. Bryden Tales S. Afr. ix. 215, I have passed across these plains through a herd of trek-bokken..three or four miles broad. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo ix. 157 The springbuck migrations..are something we shall never see again. Colonists called them ‘trekbokke’ or ‘travellingbuck’.
1928R. A. Knox Footsteps at Lock v. 43 The bigger boys had gone.. with the *trek-cart to bring our stores over. 1977Drive Jan.–Feb. 15/2 Boy scouts' trek-cart needed.
1900Daily News 6 Apr. 3/1 The local supply of *trek cattle..from the farms of the Boers.
1878H. A. Roche On Trek in Transvaal 332 Our oxen were free, walking off a yard or two with our tree-disselboom and *trek-chain. 1972Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 21 Apr. (Advt.), Chain traces 55c each; Trek chains R1.55.
1912East London Daily Dispatch 1 May 5 (Pettman), The desirability of amending the railway tariff for trek-sheep to enable *trek farmers to avail themselves of the railway. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo vii. 128 The mountain bush had housed the first trek-farmers in hard and stormy weather. 1980First & Scott Olive Schreiner i. 28 Boer trek-farmers moved away from British control.
1897J. P. Fitzpatrick Outspan 3 When..this instinct awakens,..it becomes a madness, and they call it *trek-fever. 1943D. Reitz No Outspan viii. 106 Gauko-Otawi, the ‘Rustplaats’ or resting place of the Trekkers. Here it was that in 1878 they had built a church, their trek-fever temporarily stilled.
1913W. W. Thompson Sea Fisheries Cape Colony ii. 46 The seine, or ‘*trek-net’, has from the very earliest period of the European occupation of the country been the type of net generally adopted. 1970Cape Argus 24 Dec. 2 They had cast trek nets in the surf.
1956J. L. B. Smith Old Fourlegs i. 9, I..lived with the coastal *trek-netters.
1850Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (ed. 2) I. 220, I purchased..several excellent horses and *trek-oxen. 1906Harper's Mag. June 29/1 The northernmost limit of the trek-ox in Africa.
1934Webster, *Trekpath. 1936Cape Argus 18 Mar. 13 The trek-path controversy has led many men to fence their farms. 1955L. G. Green Karoo xii. 142 A trek path is a definite route which a farmer is entitled to follow when leading his sheep to new pastures.
1883Cornh. Mag. Mar. 293 The oxen loosened from the *trek rope.
1912*Trek sheep [see trek-farmer above].
▪ II. trek, v. orig. S. Afr.|trɛk|
[a. Du. trekk-en to draw, pull, tug, tow, march, travel; MDu., MLG., MHG. trecken, OWFris. trekka; orig. an intensive derivative of MDu., MLG. trēken, MHG. trechen, OHG. trechan to draw.]
1. a. intr. To make a journey by ox-wagon; hence, to travel, migrate; also, to go, proceed; to go away, depart (slang). Also transf. of wild animals. S. Afr.
1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 12/2 [The elephants] turned their faces to the north-east, and trekked or migrated from their ancestral jungles to lands unknown. Ibid. 74/2 At dawn of day, we inspanned, and trekked about five hours in a north-easterly course. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 154 The wagons had been quietly treking along over an immense open country. 1891Spectator 25 Apr. 583/2 A large body of them [Boers]—five thousand, it is said—therefore resolved to ‘trek’ into Mashonaland and establish a Republic upon the great plateau. 1895J. G. Millais Breath fr. Veldt ii. 25 The springbuck..were beginning to trek backwards and forwards uneasily.
(b) Hence generally in extended use: to travel, esp. arduously, to make one's way. Freq. trivially.
1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxviii. 342 When the police first saw them they were trekking through the scrub. 1912Standard 20 Sept. 7/1 He [the King] met the whole of the Third Division, who were trekking to their rest camps from their overnight bivouac. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 11 June 13/2 The hungry pilot trekking over the tundra should beware of the liver of the Polar bear. 1955[see trekking vbl. n.]. 1976Oadby & Wigston (Leics.) Advertiser 26 Nov. 7/6, I was surprised as I trekked from shop to shop how much prices varied. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xvii. 438 It would mean trekking down to the kitchen again, and..no one appreciates the patter of my little feet.
b. trans. To cover (ground, a distance) by ‘trekking’. S. Afr.
1890Sir F. Young Winter Tour S. Africa 118 The ground which I have myself treked.
2. trans. To draw or drag (a vehicle): said of oxen and other beasts of draught. Also absol.
1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 152 My oxen could not possibly trek my wagon through the heavy sands in their present condition. Ibid. viii. 309 We ultimately got the ox tied up to the wagon-wheel,..inspanned him next morning, and he treks well. 1893H. M. Doughty Wherry in Wendish L. 53 A farm horse..which trekked us for four or five miles. |