Truck
At least in the Army and Marine Corps (I say this because these are the branches in which I have served) a truck is a ball at the top of the main flag pole on every military installation which...
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Sorry, buddy, that's pure fiction:http://www.snopes.com/military/flagball.htm
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Nice link. Thanks!Apart from the story the site says that the ball on top of a flag pole is either called "finials" or "truck".MW:truck - a small wooden cap at the top of a flagstaff or masthead...
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The decorative sense comes from the sense of "truck" meaning a wheel or roller. The term dates to 1611; use in reference to flagpoles, originally a roller or sheaves over which the rope would pass,...
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The device known as a "hand truck" goes by various names in Mexico. In some areas it is simply called a burro, yet in others, it is known as El Diablo (the Devil). While the burro name seems...
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Meaning do not tolerate. This site says either (I suspect) the word truck or the phrase have no truck with is from French troquer. Read More
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from French troquer.a (now little used) term meaning to barterThe usage 'truck farming' is not little used in this part of Leftpondia.What is the correct explanation?AHDO has the French as the origin...
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From this siteWith the Industrial Revolution there was a shift from home working to factory working and with this shift came many problems. Th...Read More
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That's interesting and I wonder why they were called Truck Acts.Maybe I didn't phrase my question clearly enough, though. What's the origin of the phrase "have no truck with"?
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From the sense of "barter" or "trade", "truck" generalized in sense to any sort of business, "'traffic, intercourse, communication, dealings. Now usu. in negative contexts: to have no truck with (a...
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A common Spanish word for "to barter, to exchange" is trocar. The noun ("an exchange") is trueque. One might have thought that the word is of Latin origin; the RAE, however, says simply "etymology...
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Where else could these words truck, troquer, trocar have originally come from? A) They could have come from Gaulishor either2) They could have come from Latin but we don't know what word in Latin.
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