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verb
Trek  v. i.  (past & past part. trekked; pres. part. trekking)  (Written also treck)  (South Africa)
1.
To draw or haul a load, as oxen.
2.
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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"Trek" Quotes from Famous Books



... its name from the two leaders who 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, ...
— Stories That Words Tell Us • Elizabeth O'Neill
... trek across ther mountains, after all," commented Hickey, no more moved by what had occurred than he ever was ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering
... some wonderful times together, old pal, you and I," said he. "We thought it was all over, didn't we, for a while? But it's not! Life's not done, yet. It's maybe just beginning! We're going out on the long trek, again!" ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England


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


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