truck3 (truk)

[ This is called the French game [of billiards), and much resembled the Italian method of playing, known in England by the name of Trucks , which also had its king at one end of the table. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 397. truck a gel (truk'āj), n. [Formerly also truccage; truck1 + -age .] Exchange; barter. Without the truccage of perishing Coine. Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii.