emporium vs truck

emporium

noun
  • A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term). 

  • A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods. 

  • A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace. 

truck

noun
  • 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]. 

  • 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 ball on top of a flagpole. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words emporium and truck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )