Truck (disambiguation)
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The word truck or trucks can mean:
- A truck is US English for a motor vehicle for transporting goods. In British English the everyday term is lorry, while the formal terms are "heavy goods vehicle" or "large goods vehicle" (In US English a lorry is an open railroad car (gondola) with a tipping trough, often found in mines).
- A light truck is a truck that generally has a maximum payload capacity of less than two tons. In the United States, light trucks are frequently used for normal passenger transportation instead of cars.
- A forklift truck can be called just truck or forklift.
- A railroad truck in US English, or a bogie in British English, is a rotatable frame holding a pair (or more usually two pairs) of wheels and which supports one end of a railroad car or locomotive.
- A railway truck in an informal British English word for what is officially known as a railway (goods) wagon or van (in US English a railroad freight car); it may be open (e.g. a coal truck) or covered (e.g. a cattle truck).
- A hand truck is in US English a small handcart consisting of a metal plate attached to metal tubing and two large wheels. The metal tubing is bent to form a long handle, so as to provide good mechanical advantage. The metal plate is slipped under large heavy objects, and the truck and object are tilted backward until the weight is balanced over the large wheels, making otherwise bulky and heavy objects easy to move.
- A library truck is a set of bookshelves on wheels used to move books around in a library; known in British English as a library trolley.
- A masthead truck is a nautical term for a wooden cap at the top of a mast, with holes in it through which halyards are passed.
- To truck is also a (now little used) verb meaning to barter or market; it survives in such expressions as to have no truck with someone and truck farming.
- Truck is goods given as payment.
- The British Truck Acts were Acts of Parliament which forbade the payment of wages in truck.
- A truck farm is one that grows market-garden produce (fruit and vegetables).
- Truck can also mean worthless goods or junk. Usage in this context can be seen in Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer: "Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?" (Chapter 1)
- A skateboard truck, along with griptape, wheels, bearings, bolts, and a deck, composes a complete skateboard.
- The truck number is slang for the number of people involved in a project who are not essential for its completion (i.e. the number of people that can be hit by a truck without the project collapsing).
- The big Pacific Ocean scuba diving wreck site is correctly spelled Truk Lagoon.
- Trucks (band), a rock band
- Trucks (short story), a short story by Stephen King
- Trucks (movie), a movie based on the Stephen King short story
- Trucks!, a television program on Spike TV
- Truck a music festival in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
- Truck - a flat plate that tops a flagpole (originally meant to keep a wooden pole from splitting).
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