troke

American  

[trohk] / troʊk /

noun

1. truck.

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verb (used with or without object)

troked, troking

1. truck.

Other Word Forms

• troker
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of troke

First recorded in 1800–10; Scots, from Middle English truken, trukien “to exchange”; see truck ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

troke troking

Now if ye’re ane o’ warl’s folk, Wha rate the wearer by the cloak, An’ sklent on poverty their joke Wi’ bitter sneer, Wi’ you nae friendship I will troke, Nor cheap nor dear.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Now if ye're ane o' warl's folk, Wha rate the wearer by the cloak, An' sklent on poverty their joke, Wi' bitter sneer, Wi' you nae friendship I will troke, Nor cheap nor dear.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

"You'll likely ken," said Mungo; "I've had sma' troke wi' them mysel'."

From Doom Castle by Neil Munro

Rashleigh Osbaldistone is better ken'd than trusted in Glasgow, for he was here about some jacobitical papistical troking in seventeen hundred and seven, and left debt ahint him.

From Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott

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