truantship

[English truant; -ship.] The state or condition of a truant; neglect of duty or employment; truancy. "If the child. have used no truantship."Ascham: Scholemaster. *trŭb, s . [Lat. tuber .] A truffle (q. v.). *trub-tail, s. [Etym. of first element doubtful.) A short, squat woman. trûçe, *treowes, *trewes, *triwes, *truwys, *trws, s . [Properly a plural form from trew =a pledge of truth; A. S. treówa , trúwa =a compact, faith, from trebwe =true (q. v.).] 1. Mil .: The suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of the opposing armies; a temporary ce ation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice. "Loud came the cry, 'The Bruce, the Bruce!" No hope or in defence or truce .' change. "Having truck'd thy soul, brought home the fee, To tempt the poor to sell himself to thee." Cowper: Expostulation , 374. For the difference between to truck and to exchange, see EXCHANGE. truck (2), v. t. [TRUCK (2), s.] To put into a truck or trucks; to convey or send in trucks. "The facilities of trucking canoes by railway are good, but not by steamer."- Field , Feb. 19, 1887. *trück (3), *truk-kyn, v. t. [Sw.trycka: Dan. trykke to pre , squeeze; Ger. drücken .] To fold or gather up; to tuck. ( Prompt . Parv .) trück (1), *trucke, s . [TRUCK (1), v.] 1. Exchange of commodities; barter. "No commutation or trucke to be made by any of the petit merchants." -Hackluyt : Voyages, i. 228. 2. Commodities suitable for barter or small trade; hence, small commodities; spec if., in the United States, vegetables raised for market. From this meaning the word has been extended so as to include almost any substance; thus, a physician gives his patients "lots of truck ," .; any miscellaneous a ortment of substances is denominated" a pile of truck ." 3. Traffic; intercourse; dealing; as, I have no truck with him. ( Colloq . & slang .) 4. The practice of paying wages otherwise than in actual coin, whereby the employed person was sometimes defrauded of part of the wage he had contracted to receive; or of wage-paying at long intervals, the employer making intermediate advances and charging very high rates of interest. Truck is a very ancient evil. It was rampant in the fifteenth century, and one of the Norman-French statutes, of England, 4 Edward IV., c. 1, s. 5, states that "before this time, in the occupations of cloth making, the laborers have been driven to take a great part of their wages in unprofitable wares," and the employers were, by that act, required to pay in lawful money, under penalty of forfeiture to the laborer of treble wages. The truck system is practiced in this country in those states in which it is not prohibited by statute. *truck-man, s. One who barters or trucks, truck-shop, s. A tommy-shop (q v.). truck-system, s. [TRUCK (1), 8., 4.] truck (2), s. [Latin trochus; Gr.trochos=a run ner, a wheel, a disc; trecho =to run.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A small wooden wheel, not bound with iron; a Scott : Lord of the Isles , v. 31. 2. An intermi ion of action, pain, or contest; a cylinder. temporary ce ation, alleviation, or quiet. "There he may find Truce to his restle thoughts, and entertain The irksome hours.' Milton P. L .. ii. 526. 2. A low two-wheeled vehicle for conveying goods and packages. The hand-truck is an efficient vehicle for removing single packages of considerable weight; the curved bar in front being placed pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, põt, under the box, for instance, which is then tipped so as to balance back slightly against the bed, in which position it is transported upon a pair of heavy wheels of small diameter. The term is sometimes applied to certain hand-carts and two-wheeled barrows. 3. A wagon with a low bed, for moving heavy packages. 4. A low platform on wheels for moving buildings; heavy stone blocks, safes, . 5. ( Pl.): A kind of game. [TRUCOS.] II. Technically: 1. Mach .: A roller at the foot of a derrick or gin by which the position of the hoisting-apparatus may be shifted. 2. Nautical : (1) A small wooden disc at the extreme summit of a mast. It may contain the pulleys for the signal halyards. (2) A circular perforated block like a wooden thimble, and acting as a fair-leader. 3. Ordn.: A small solid wheel on which a certain description of gun-carriage is based. 4. Railroad Engineering: (1) An open wagon for the conveyance of goods. (2) A swiveling carriage with four or six wheels beneath the forward part of a locomotive, or supporting one end of a railway carriage. The long-car supported on swiveling-trucks is one of the peculiar features of American railway rolling-stock.