truck house (trukhous)

A house erected for the storage of goods, used by early English settlers in America in trading with the Indians. trucking-house (truk'ing-hous), n. Same as truck-house. The French came in a pinnace to Penobscot, and rifled a trucking - house belonging to Plimouth. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 94. truck-jack (truk'jak), n. A lifting-jack suspended from a truck-axle, and used to lift logs or other heavy objects for loading upon low bodied sleds or wagons. E. H. Knight. on the truck system; a tommy-shop. truck-store (truk's tor), n. Same as truck -shop. Applet on's Ann. Cyc., 1886, p. 84. trucos (tröʻkos), n. [Sp.: see truck3.] A game. See truck3. Pre scott. true It is not always that its [the trumpet's] notes are either true or tuneful. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xii. 3. Conformable to law and justice; legitimate; rightful: as, the true heir. An oath is of no moment, being not took Before a true and lawful magistrate. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., i. 2. 23. truculent i a , truculent us , truculent: see trucu- lent.] The state or character of being trucu- lent; savagene of manners and appearance; ferociousne ; ferocity. truculency (trökū-len-si or truk'ū-len-si), n. [ truculence (see-cy).] Same as truculence . He loves not tyranny:... the truculency of the sub- truckle (truk'l), n. [Early mod. E. troccle , trokel , trookyl (in comp.), troclea , Water house , On Fortescue (1663), p. 184. a small wheel, a wheel of a pulley, a pulley, a . [ troclea , trochlea , a sheaf, pulley, τροχι- truculent = Sp. Pg. It. truculento, truculento , L. trucu- λέα, τροχιλία, & pulley, τροχός , a wheel: see lent us , fierce, savage, ferocious, trux ( truc- ) , trochus , and cf. trochlea , trochilus2 . Cf. truck2, fierce, wild.] 1. Fierce; savage; barbarous. as related to trochus .] 1. A wheel of a pulley; A barbarous Scythia, where the savage and truculent also, a pulley. inhabitants... live upon milk, and flesh roasted in the Ray . Jabol, a truckle or pullie.... Moufle , a truckle for a pullie. Cotgrave. 2. A small wheel or caster. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, ii. 200.-3. A small flat cheese. [Prov. Eng.] -4. A truckle-bed. Scott , Abbot, I. 236. Where be those kit chins tuffes here? shall we have no attendants? shew these Gentlemen into a close roo me, with a standing bed in't, and a truckle too; you are welcome, Gentlemen. Heywood , Royal King (Works, ed. 1874, VI. 46). truckle (truk'l), v.; pret. and pp. truckled , ppr. truckling. [ truckle , n.] I. trans. To move on rollers or casters; trundle. Tables with two legs and chairs without bottoms were truckled from the middle to one end of the room. Mi Burney , Camilla, iii. 13. ( Davies .) II. in trans. 1t. To sleep in a truckle-bed. See truckle , n., 4, and truckle - bed . Drawer . Now you are up, sir, will you go to bed? Pedro. I'll truckle here, boy; give me another pillow. Beau , and Fl . , Coxcomb, i. 6. Hence-2. To be tamely subordinate, as a pupil to his tutor, or a servant to his master; yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; submit; cringe; act in a servile manner: usually with to or under. He will never, while he lives, truckle under any body or any faction, but do just as his own reason and judgment directs; and, when he cannot use that freedom, he will have nothing to do in public affairs. Pepys , Diary, III. 237. The government truckles , condescends to cajole them, and drops all prosecution of their crimes. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 333. truckle-bed (truk'l-bed), n. [Early mod. E. trocclebed; trookylbed ; truckle + bed1 . Cf. trundle - bed , a diff. word of equiv. meaning.] A bed the frame of which runs on wheels; especially, one which is low enough to be wheeled under a high or standing bed, remaining there during the day, and rolled out for use at night; a trundle-bed. The truckle-bed was formerly appropriated to a servant or subordinate, and also to children. There's his chamber, his house, his castle, his standing bed and truckle - bed. Shak ., M. W. of W., iv. 5. 7. IMG:content-0963.png:[blocks in formation] August us... slept on a truckle bed without hangings. Froude , Short Studies on Great Subjects, 3d ser., p. 264. truckle-cheese (truk'l-chēz), n. Same as truckle, 3.