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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRUCK . (I) A name for See also:

barter, or commodities used in barter or See also:trade. The word came into See also:English from the See also:French troq, mod. trot; troquer, to barter, is borrowed from See also:Spanish trocar, for which several origins have been suggested, such as a See also:Low Latin travicare, the supposed See also:original of " See also:traffic " (q.v.), or some latinized See also:form of See also:Greek rpinros, turn; it may, on the other See also:hand, be connected with the Greek rpoxos, See also:wheel. " Truck," in this sense, is chiefly used now in the sense of the See also:payment of the See also:wages of workmen in See also:kind, or in any other way than the unconditional payment of See also:money, a practice known as the " truck See also:system." Colloquially, " truck " is used in the See also:general sense of " dealing," in such expressions as " to have no truck with anyone." The " truck system " has taken various forms. Sometimes the workman has been paid with " portion of that which he has helped to produce," whether he had need of it or not, but the more usual form was to give the workman the whole or See also:part of his, wages in the shape of commodities suited to his needs. There was also a practice of paying in money, but with an See also:express or tacit understanding that the workman should resort for such goods as he required to shops or stores kept by his employer. The truck system led in many cases to See also:grave abuses and was made illegal by the Truck Acts, under which wages must be paid in current See also:coin of the See also:realm, without any stipulations as to the manner in which the same shall be expended. (See LABOUR LEGISLATION.) (2) From the See also:Late Latin trochus, wheel, Greek Tpoxbs, we get " truck " in the sense of a wheeled vehicle, such as the hand-barrows used for carrying luggage at a railway station; and the word is used generally for all that portion of railway See also:rolling-stock which is intended for the See also:carriage of goods (see See also:RAILWAYS: Rolling-stock). The See also:term is also used of a circular disk of See also:wood at the See also:top of a See also:ship's See also:mast, generally provided with sheaves for the See also:signal halyards.

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