cricket vs truck

cricket

noun
  • A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. 

  • A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection. 

  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. 

  • A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). 

  • An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. 

  • A wooden footstool. 

  • An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

truck

noun
  • The ball on top of a flagpole. 

  • Social intercourse; dealings, relationships. 

  • Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books. 

  • A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage. 

  • A lorry with a closed or covered carriage. 

  • The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between. 

  • The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts]. 

  • Dirt or other messiness. 

  • A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods. 

  • A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods 

  • A platform with wheels or casters. 

  • Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden). 

  • On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck". 

verb
  • To engage in commerce; to barter or deal. 

  • To run over or through a tackler in American football. 

  • To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down). 

  • To travel, to proceed. 

  • To trade, exchange; barter. 

  • To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with. 

  • To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate. 

  • To drive a truck. 

  • To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle. 

  • To fight or otherwise physically engage with. 

  • To convey by truck. 

  • To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject. 

  • To persist, to endure. 

  • To deceive; cheat; defraud. 

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