a railway wagon or road transport vehicle with a platform body.

a body for a lorry, etc., which has an open, flat platform fitted with removable stakes (sense 5c) along the sides in order to retain the load; also…

= stake-body truck above.

a small enclosed delivery truck accessed from the rear.

(a) a rimmed table top which can be removed and used separately as a tray; (b) Australian a truck with a pick-up body.

A cab-forward or cab-over-engine lorry, truck, etc., or the cab section of such a vehicle; (often spec.) a cab-over-engine steam locomotive. See…

Chiefly North American and Australian. A cab-over-engine lorry, truck, etc., or the cab section of such a vehicle (see cab-over-engine, adj.).

= panel truck n.

A wagon or truck constructed to tip earth, etc., sometimes distinguished according to its action as an end-tipper or a side-tipper: cf. tip-, comb.…

a single-unit truck, one with its body built directly on to its chassis.

Technical uses. Each of the stanchions or posts which fit into sockets or staples on a trolley, wagon or boat to prevent the load from slipping off…