Dictionary entry

Truck (5)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Truck (?), n. [Cf. F. troc.] 1. Exchange of commodities; barter. Hakluyt.

2. Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.

3. The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; — called also truck system.

Garden truck, vegetables raised for market. — Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening.