Index of English words, starting with "tr"

(1) - Truant (v. t.) To idle away; to waste.
(2) - Truant (v. i.) To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
(3) - Truant (a.) Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
(4) - Truant (n.) One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

(1) - Truantly (adv.) Like a truant; in idleness.

(1) - Truce (n.) Hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet.
(2) - Truce (n.) A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.

(1) - Truck (n.) The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.
(2) - Truck (n.) Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.
(3) - Truck (n.) Exchange of commodities; barter.
(4) - Truck (v. i.) To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.
(5) - Truck (v. t.) To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.
(6) - Truck (v. t.) To transport on a truck or trucks.
(7) - Truck (v. i.) A frame on low wheels or rollers; -- used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.
(8) - Truck (v. i.) A freight car.
(9) - Truck (v. i.) A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.
(10) - Truck (v. i.) A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.
(11) - Truck (v. i.) A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; -- sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.
(12) - Truck (v. i.) A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.
(13) - Truck (v. i.) A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.