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Trek v. i. (past & past part. trekked; pres. part. trekking) (Written also treck) (South Africa)

To draw or haul a load, as oxen.

To travel, esp. by ox wagon; to go from place to place; to migrate. (Chiefly South Africa) "One of the motives which induced the Boers of 1836 to trek out of the Colony."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trek" Quotes from Famous Books

... That the United States government was only awaiting a time most propitious for itself is evident from the fact that, when, in the spring following, refugees from the Neutral Lands were given an opportunity to begin their backward trek, they were told that they would not be permitted to linger at their old homes but would have to go on all the way to Fort Gibson, one hundred twenty miles farther south.[664] That was one way of ridding Kansas of her ...

— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel

... weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day, With sun above and silent veldt below; And our hearts keep turning homeward to the youngsters far away, And the homestead where the climbing roses grow. Shall we see the flats grow golden with the ripening ...

— Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson

... to sell home, farm, and all that remained over from the depredations of the Kaffirs, and to trek away from British rule. The Colony was at this time bounded on the north by ...

— A Century of Wrong • F. W. Reitz

... "That's wrong, Tem. There aren't any underground levels. I can remember distinctly that my father was a Controller, Third Class. Our family used to trek several hundred miles every year. When we needed something, my father would think it, and there it'd be. He promised to teach me how, but ...

— The Status Civilization • Robert Sheckley

... led the Boers out of Cape Colony when they felt that the English were becoming too strong there. These leaders were Pieter Retief and Georit Maritz. This movement of the Boers into the Transvaal was called the "Great Trek," trek being a Dutch word for a journey or migration of this sort. Since the days of the Boer War this word has been regularly used in English with this same meaning. Like the English settlers in America, the Dutch ...

— Stories That Words Tell Us • Elizabeth O'Neill

... not surprise me this morning when Dinky-Dunk announced that he felt a trifle stale and suggested that the family take a holiday on Tuesday and trek out to Dead-Horse Lake for the day. We're to hitch Tumble-Weed and Tithonus to the old prairie-schooner—for we'll be taking side-trails where no car could venture—and pike off for a whole blessed day of care-free picnicking. ...

— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer

... Kelley, reassured. "Now suppose we trek along home and go by-by. I'll write to the Secretary to-night and make a date with him. It's a ticklish job to get guns out of New York. McClusky himself can't ...

— Strictly Business • O. Henry

... my "Hya! Heeya! Heeya! Hullah! Haul!" [O the green that thunders aft along the deck!] Are you sick o' towns and men? You must sign and sail again, For it's "Johnny Bowlegs, pack your kit and trek!" ...

— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling

Words linked to "Trek" : Republic of South Africa, journey, travel, trekker, South Africa, journeying, trip