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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1681-1685
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Truck, v. [17th c. Eng. truck n. (1626) a wooden cap on the head of a mast with holes for halyards. Also in the mod. (Orkney) dial. (cf. SND, s.v. Truck v.1).] tr. To haul or hoist up (a person or thing). Also fig. — 1681 Lauder Observes 52.
The schollars of Westminster in derision of the Presbyterians of … London truck't up a fellow of pasboard whom they termed Jack Presbyter —fig. 1685 Fountainhall Decis. I 383.
The report was quarrelled by Gairsey that it was not taken in Orkney but in Caithness anent the prices of Orkney victual; and tho' the interlocutor restricted Melseter to prove it by merchants and gentlemen, yet he had trucked up sundry, and given them the denomination of merchants who never traded in victual but might buy a boll or two for their family
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