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▪ I. trucking, vbl. n.1|ˈtrʌkɪŋ|
[f. truck v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of truck v.1; exchanging, bartering, trafficking, bargaining; dealings, intercourse; also spec. the giving or receiving payment of wages in kind.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xiii. (1616) 216 Manie..by trafficking and trucking, within few dayes haue lost their principall. 1624Massinger Renegado ii. vi, Pray you, help me to some trucking With your last she-customer. 1661Colet's Serm. Conf. & Ref. ii. 27 Unloose your selves from the worldly bondage, from trucking with the world. 1705Vanbrugh Confed. ii. i, You like your neighbour's [wife] better... What a pity it is the law don't allow trucking. 1755Ramsay To Jas. Clerk 11 To fend by troaking, buying, selling. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxvi, He was here about some Jacobitical papistical troking in seventeen hundred and seven. 1830Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 354 The workman..if he will have liquor,..must get it by trucking with the goods that he has got at the tommy shop. a1867Sir A. Alison Autobiog. (1883) I. ii. 30 Our..interchange of little purchases or troking as we called it.
b. U.S. The cultivation of ‘truck’ or vegetables.
1897Philad. Jrnl. Fine Arts June, About one half [of the grounds] is used for trucking and pasture purposes.
c. attrib. in sense ‘used for truck or barter’, as † trucking-cloth, trucking-house, trucking-stuff.
1675in Hubbard Narrative i. (1865) 78 He or they..shall receive for their Pains, forty *Trucking-cloth Coats.
1632Rec. Crt. Assistants Mass. Bay (1904) II. 23 There shalbe a *trucking howse..in euery plantacion whither the Indians may resorte to trade. 1648B. Plantagenet Descr. New Albion 23 To reduce all their trading to five Ports or Pallisadoed trucking houses. 1755T. Prince Ann. New Eng. ii. ii. (1826) 395 There shall be a trucking house in every plantation.
1624Good News fr. New Eng. in Arber Pilgrim Fathers (1897) 533 We were worn out of all manner of *trucking stuff, not having [therefore] any means left to help ourselves by trade.
▪ II. trucking, vbl. n.2|ˈtrʌkɪŋ|
[truck v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of conveying by truck. Now chiefly U.S., the conveyance of goods by means of a lorry or other motor vehicle; lorry-driving.
1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 73 Wharfage and Shipping Marking {pstlg}1 16s. 7d., Trucking..{pstlg}1 10s. 1891Echo 10 Mar. 3/2 On the quays..the snow is a foot deep, and trucking from the sheds to the ship has been delayed. 1909Dundee Advertiser 24 Nov. 7 Miners..have struck work owing to a difference with the management regarding the trucking of coal. 1947[implied at parlay v. 2]. 1955Amer. Speech XXX. 91 In trucking, twin screws mean that there are two sets of rear wheels that are powered. 1961Ibid. XXXVI. 271 Both the [lumbering] industry and the comparative isolation encourage trucking. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. b5/1 Parts one and two of the act, introduced last year, have been implemented and deal mainly with railways. Part three, dealing with trucking, has not yet become law. 1978New York 3 Apr. 88/1 (Advt.), Quick (but careful) Trucking—Immediate Service.
b. attrib.
1947Trucking firm [see parlay v. 2]. 1955Amer. Speech XXX. 91 Some of the words and terms of the trucking industry have been carried over from earlier days of teamsters and steamboat men. 1962‘E. McBain’ Heckler iv. 35, I..work for the trucking company. 1969G. Lyall Venus with Pistol ix. 50 I'm in the trucking business. 1978S. Brill Teamsters i. 14 He had negotiated a national trucking contract.
2. The action of dancing the truck. slang.
1935[see truck n.2 4]. 1938, etc. [see Susie-Q]. 1944C. Calloway Hepsters Dict. in Of Minnie the Moocher (1976) 260 Trucking, a dance introduced at the Cotton Club in 1933. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene iv. 60 The Black Bottom, Charleston, Lindy Hop, Big Apple, Truckin' and the rest..have been mainly temporary crazes. 1971E. Bullins in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 70 The dancers upon the concrete were blocks away, souls in time to the trotting and trucking of the savage song of the threshing floor.
3. Cinematogr. (In sense 3 of the vb.) trucking shot = tracking shot s.v. tracking vbl. n. 5.
1948A. Huxley Ape & Essence (1949) 46 We..enjoy a trucking shot of mortuary gazebos. 1959W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 91/2 Dollying, otherwise Tracking, Travelling or Trucking, the moving of a camera on a dolly or camera truck during shooting. |