Dictionary

truckman en · NOUN

Etymology

From truck + man.

Meanings

1. One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
2. One who drives a truck (usually in the older sense, a kind of horse-drawn wagon), or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.
   • The truckmen themselves are almost as singular a race as their animals. Like the Judiciary in England, they wear gowns,—­not of the same cut and color though,—­which reach below their knees; and from the racket they make on the pavements with their hob-nailed brogans, you would think they patronized the same shoemaker with their horses. I never could get any thing out of these truckmen. They are a reserved, sober-sided set, who, with all possible solemnity, march at the head of their animals; now and then gently advising them to sheer to the right or the left, in order to avoid some passing vehicle. 1849, Herman Melville, Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
   • Like most New York truckmen, Carney owned his own team and wagon; but unlike most of them, he hired out by the day, instead of by the week—for he had the best horses on the water-front[…] 1914, Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Silent Sam and Other Stories of Our Day:

Forms

Synonyms

trucker