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truckman

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who trucks or exchanges.
  • noun A truck-driver; a carter or carman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
  • noun One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
  • noun One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

truck +‎ man

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Examples

  • It is a common belief that any stout truckman can do the thing; but I have been assured by one of the leading truckmen of Boston, that there are not, probably, three individuals in the city who are equal to the accomplishment.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • When they had reached the corner of Washington and La Salle, the truckman signified his intention of throwing off his load.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

  • And soon, in a carriage, with their valises piled around them, our party set off for Edgemere, leaving a truckman to bring the trunks.

    The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand Laura Lee Hope

  • On the sudden cry of the truckman he sprang aside, tripped, and fell headlong against a large, square packing-case.

    The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

  • Mother Atterson had breakfast the next morning by lamplight, because the truckman wanted to make an early start.

    Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

  • I found what many other gymnasts will find, that _main strength_, by which I mean the strength of the truckman and the porter, cannot be acquired in the ordinary exercises of the gymnasium.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • The logical person to deliver a package is a truckman or an expressman.

    The Criminal C.O.D Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, 1909-1976 1940

  • A truckman had followed her only the day before through half a block of snarled traffic to see that she turned properly to the right.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • Jimmie hired his former boss -- and truckman -- to move his few sticks of furniture; he bade farewell to his little friend Meissner, and next day was learning to milk cows and steer a plough.

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

  • When he parted from Jean McNabb after the coasting party, Wentworth proceeded to the railway station, where he purchased his ticket and arranged with a truckman to call for his trunk at exactly eight o'clock.

    The Challenge of the North 1921

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