truck (1), trukken

i. & t. [Fr. troquer =to truck, to barter, to exchange, from Sp. & Port. tro car to barter, a word of doubtful origin; Old Fr. troq =truck, barter; Fr. troc; Sp.trueco, trueque = barter; Port. troco the change of a piece of gold or silver; troca =barter.] A. In trans.: To exchange commodities; to bar ter; to traffic by exchange or barter. some to truck with unindime fpaniards who lived theres tan 1681) ent or by the court, and in case of non-compliance to order the child to be sent to a certified day in- B. Trans.: To barter, to exchange, to give in ex- dustrial school, or if there be no certified day industrial school, then to a certified industrial school. Truant-schools, of which there are about a dozen in England, are not recognized by law except as certificated industrial schools, from which they only differ in the character of their inmates. "On Saturday afternoon the North London Industrial Truant-school at Walthamstow was publicly opened by the Earl of Aberdeen. The school has been established by the school boards of Hornsey, Tottenham, and Edmonton, for the reception of persistent truant boys from those parishes. It is the first school of its kind erected by the district school boards-"- Pall Mall Gazette.