truckman

[ truhk-muhn ]

noun

, plural truck·men.

1. a truckdriver.
2. a person who is in the business of trucking truck trucking goods, produce, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of truckman¹

An Americanism dating back to 1780–90; truck ¹ + -man

Example Sentences

The prince left with the trunk on his shoulder—an excellent contrivance for screening his face from view—but it proved too heavy, and when he came across a truckman who agreed to take him and his load part of the way to his destination he was glad to be relieved of the burden.

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When appeal to the alderman proved useless, the truckman resorted to strategy.

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The trucks that obstructed the children's only playground, the street, went with the dirt despite the opposition of the truckman who had traded off his vote to Tammany in the past for stall room at the curbstone.

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For the second time that Christmas night tears came into the honest truckman’s eyes.

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Two oxen, horses, or mules and their harness and food for one month, and one cart, wagon, dray, truck, coupe, hack, or carriage for one or two horses, by the use of which a cartman, drayman, truckman, huckster, peddler, hackman, teamster, or other laborer habitually earns his living, and one horse, vehicle, and harness used by physician, surgeon, constable, or minister of the gospel in the legitimate practice of his profession or business, with food for such animal for one month. 7th.

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