Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shop conducted on the truck system; a tommy-shop.
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Examples
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However, the truck-shop was gradually disappearing.
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In West Scotland some of the coal-owners were trying to recoup themselves for the loss of their truck-shop by charging poundage on the men's wages.
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Truck and Tommy, truck-shop and Tommy-shop, are convertible terms.
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In the district north and east of Dudley, the butties got their 'charter price' from the coal-owners in the form of tickets on the coal-owners 'truck-shop.
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Owen's store at New Lanark was, in effect, a well-managed truck-shop; and the Truck Commissioners of 1871 reported that the New Lanark Company of that day was breaking the law.
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Look at my pretty little truck-shop down the village.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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The tall, grassy hill and swing set now fill the atrium of the 4141 Building, with the truck-shop parked alongside.
StyleList Jennifer Paull 2009
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