trek (trek)

[D., pull, tug, draft: see trek, v., track1, n.] In South Africa, the action of drawing, as a vehicle or a load; draft; traction; hence, a journey or migration; the distance between one stopping-place and the next; travel: as, that was short trek. After the rain the trek was heavy. Pop . Sci . Mo., XXIX. 619. When it first became known that the trek was projected, 5,000 Boers were calculated to be upon the point of forming the army of invasion. New York Tribune , May 8, 1891. trekker (trek'er), n. [ trekker , く trekken , draw: see trek , v . ] One who treks; a traveler; a wanderer; a migrator. [South Africa.] Quiet people nowadays are no lovers of bagging colonists, the beach-comber, the trekker , the belthe carpet ligerent mi ionary. Contemporary Rev. , LIII. 534.