单词 | trucking |
释义 | truckingn.1 a. The action of truck v.1; exchanging, bartering, trafficking, bargaining; dealings, intercourse; also spec. the giving or receiving payment of wages in kind. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > barter > [noun] formanginga1300 nifferc1400 barteringc1440 roring1440 commutation1496 scorsing1509 chopping and changing1548 exchange1553 truck1553 block1568 bartery1570 chopping1581 scorse1590 barter1592 trucking1594 swap1625 truckage1641 truck trade1740 handling1850 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiii. 216 Many..by trafficquing & trucking, within few daies haue lost their principall. 1630 P. Massinger Renegado ii. vi. sig. F Pray you help me to some trucking With your last shee customer. 1661 tr. J. Colet Serm. Conform. & Reform. ii. 27 Unloose your selves from the worldly bondage, from trucking with the world. 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy ii. i You like your neighbour's [wife] better... What a pity it is the law don't allow trucking. 1755 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Clerk 11 To fend by troaking, buying, selling. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 295 He was here about some Jacobitical Papistical troking in seventeen hundred and seven. 1830 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 22 May 666 The workman..if he will have liquor..must get it by trucking with the goods that he has got at the tommy shop. a1867 A. Alison Autobiogr. (1883) I. ii. 30 Our..interchange of little purchases or troking as we called it. b. U.S. The cultivation of ‘truck’ or vegetables. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > types of gardening curtilagec1430 kitchen gardening?1700 landscape-gardeninga1763 picturesque gardeninga1763 window gardening1801 landscape architecture1840 rock gardening1840 market gardening1852 water gardening1870 wild gardening1870 olericulture1886 market work1887 trucking1897 tub-gardening1904 landscaping1930 greenswardsmanship1936 godwottery1937 sand gardening1960 xeriscaping1987 1897 Philad. Jrnl. Fine Arts June About one half [of the grounds] is used for trucking and pasture purposes. Compounds General attributive in sense ‘used for truck or barter’. ΚΠ 1675 in W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) i. 78 He or they..shall receive for their Pains, forty Trucking-cloth Coats. trucking-house n. ΚΠ 1632 Rec. Court Assistants Mass. Bay (1904) II. 23 There shalbe a trucking howse..in euery plantacion whither the Indians may resorte to trade. 1648 B. Plantagenet Descr. New Albion 23 To reduce all their trading to five Ports or Pallisadoed trucking houses. 1755 T. Prince Ann. New Eng. (1826) ii. ii. 395 There shall be a trucking house in every plantation. trucking-stuff n. ΚΠ 1624 Good 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018). truckingn.2 1. a. 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > in trucks trucking1809 truckage1830 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > by motor lorry trucking1809 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 73 Wharfage and Shipping Marking £1 16s. 7d., Trucking..£1 10s. 1891 Echo 10 Mar. 3/2 On the quays..the snow is a foot deep, and trucking from the sheds to the ship has been delayed. 1909 Dundee Advertiser 24 Nov. 7 Miners..have struck work owing to a difference with the management regarding the trucking of coal. 1947 [see sense 1b]. 1955 Amer. Speech 30 91 In trucking, twin screws mean that there are two sets of rear wheels that are powered. 1961 Amer. Speech 36 271 Both the [lumbering] industry and the comparative isolation encourage trucking. 1968 Globe & 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. 1978 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 88/1 (advt.) Quick (but careful) Trucking—Immediate Service. b. attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [adjective] > relating to types of goods transport over-the-road1945 trucking1947 off-road1954 intermodal1963 1947 Life 20 Jan. 89/2 Only 25 years ago trucking firms consisted of a few men with strong backs and iron nerves who parlayed their savings into creaky trucks and did their bookkeeping on backs of envelopes. 1955 Amer. Speech 30 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. 1969 G. Lyall Venus with Pistol ix. 50 I'm in the trucking business. 1978 S. Brill Teamsters i. 14 He had negotiated a national trucking contract. 2. The action of dancing the truck. slang. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > jerky dances > [noun] pogoing1921 truck1935 trucking1935 jerk1964 bump1967 1935 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Nov. 14/6 The truck, or truckin', that jerky yet rhythmic dance which combines a bend of the body, a tightening of the hand muscles and a slight strut with the legs, hit the theaters, sidewalks, gin taverns and dance floors of Harlem last summer. 1938 A. Murray How to become Good Dancer 188 Neither truckin' nor the Suzie-Q is a complete dance in itself. Both are skylarking steps that add variety. 1944 C. 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. 1971 E. 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. Cinematography. (In sense 4 of the verb) trucking shot n. = tracking shot n. at tracking n.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > shot > [noun] > types of long shot1858 glass shot1908 close-up1913 aerial shot1920 angle shot1922 medium shot1925 far-away1926 travelling shot1927 zoom1930 zoom shot1930 process shot1931 close-medium shot1933 medium close-up1933 reverse angle1933 reverse shot1934 three-shot1934 tilt shot1934 medium-close shot1937 reaction shot1937 tracking shot1940 pan shot1941 stock shot1941 Dutch angle1947 cheat shot1948 establishing shot1948 master-scene1948 trucking shot1948 two-shot1949 bridging shot1951 body shot1952 library shot1953 master shot1953 mid shot1953 MS1953 pullback1957 MCU1959 noddy1982 arc shot1989 pop shot1993 1948 A. Huxley Ape & Essence (1949) 46 We..enjoy a trucking shot of mortuary gazebos. 1959 W. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018). > as lemmasˈtrucking ˈtrucking adj. that trucks or barters. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > barter > [adjective] > bartering trucking1776 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. ii. 18 This same trucking disposition..originally gives occasion to the division of labour. View more context for this quotation 1871 A. S. Harvey in Good Words 12 611 In the hosiery trade the trucking middlemen undersell the cash-paying masters. < n.11594n.21809 as lemmas |
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