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▪ I. trucker1|ˈtrʌkə(r)|
[f. truck v.1 and n.1 + -er1. Cf. F. troqueur (17th c.).]
1. One who trucks or barters; a barterer, bargainer; Sc. an itinerant dealer, a pedlar; † also, as a term of reproach: a haggler, huckster, trafficker (obs.).
1598Florio, Barattiere,..a trucker, a marter, an exchanger. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 239 This silly foole was a kinde of trucker of commodities. 1632Massinger City Madam iii. i, I know them—swaggering, suburbian roarers, Sixpenny truckers. 1660J. Lloyd Prim. Episc. 31 The sacrilegious truckers, which would have the reverend Clergy live upon their leavings and scraps. c1790in Ramsay Scot. in 18th C. (1888) II. xi. 323 note, Every year there came a set of troquers or trockhers (barterers, Fr. troquer) from Ireland with horse-loads of linen, which they bartered for the miner's old clothes. 1802J. Baillie Ethwald ii. i. iii, Come on, base trokers of your country's blood. 1816Scott Antiq. iii, Brokers and trokers, those miscellaneous dealers in things rare and curious.
2. U.S. One who grows ‘truck’ or garden produce for market; a truck-gardener or truck-farmer.
1868Norfolk (Virginia) Jrnl., The truckers in this neighborhood. 1882Philad. Even. Star 2 May, Norfolk truckers are picking their strawberries. 1890Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 10 Apr. 2/4 Southern vegetables are looking very well and the truckers are hopeful.
3. attrib., as trucker-fashion; also † trucker-cloth, ? cloth for trucking; cf. trucking-cloth.
1536Somerset Medieval Wills (Som. Rec. Soc.) 34 To my brother Edward a Trucker cloth. 1543Ibid. 75 To John Burges my prentice, a trucker cloth. 1881A. Watt in Mod. Scott. Poets III. 137 In true troker fashion, she ca'd at ilk dwellin'.
▪ II. ˈtrucker2
[f. truck n.2 + -er1.]
1. A labourer who uses a truck.
1853Dickens Down with Tide in Househ. Words 5 Feb. 484/2 The Truckers..whose business it was to land more considerable parcels of goods than the Lumpers could manage. 1878F. S. Williams Midl. Railw. 640 No sooner is the train marshalled in its dock..than the ‘truckers’ bring forward the goods to be loaded. 1895Westm. Gaz. 30 May 5/3 Two wagonettes, in each of which thirty dock labourers had been driven from the East End at the expense of a lucky ‘trucker’.
2. A (long-distance) lorry-driver. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 273 A fast-driving trucker. 1963Times 2 Feb. 9/6 ‘Truckers, the real night drivers, are a race apart and 99 per cent honest,’ said Taffy. 1966B. H. Deal Fancy's Knell (1967) vi. 84 There was the barbecue and good coffee. Truckers often stopped here. 1971Maclean's Mag. Sept. 72/3 Most truckers..name their rigs after their girl friends. 1978S. Brill Teamsters i. 14 The special nature of their work gives these truckers and warehousemen a stranglehold on the nation's economic life. 1984Gainesville (Florida) Sun 30 Mar. 11a/1 The chase started when truckers on I-75 radioed troopers about a late-model Chevrolet station wagon that was weaving on the highway. 1984More (Auckland) May 81/3 And then there are some hardcore longterm truckers who have seen several seasons come and go. |