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单词 trucks
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trucksn.

/trʌks/
Forms: Also 1600s–1700s truck.
Etymology: < Italian trucco (see troco n.), Spanish troco.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
An early form of billiards, in which an upright mark called the king was placed near one end of the table. Cf. troll-madam n. and trunk n. 16.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun]
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Cf. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Truccare,..to play at billiards. Trucco, a kinde of play with balles vpon a table called billiards, but properly a kinde of game vsed in England with casting little bowles at a boord with thirteene holes in it.]
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Truck, Biliers or Biliards.1674 C. Cotton (title) The Compleat Gamester: or, Instructions how to play at Billiards, Trucks, Bowls, and Chess.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 263/1 Truck, is an Italian Game, and is not very unlike Billiards, the Table..hath 3 holes at each end, besides the corner holes.1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ Truck (the play), ludus tudicularis.1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. i. §16 The Italian method of playing, known in England by the name of Trucks,..had its king at one end of the table.
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