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trek


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Trek  \Trek\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Trekked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Trekking}.]  [Written  also  {treck}.]  [D.  trekken.  See 
  {Track},  n.]  [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.  --James  Bryce. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Trek  \Trek\,  n.  [Written  also  {treck}.]  [D.  Cf  {Track},  n.] 
  The  act  of  trekking;  a  drawing  or  a  traveling;  a  journey;  a 
  migration.  [Chiefly  South  Africa] 
 
  To  the  north  a  trek  was  projected,  and  some  years  later 
  was  nearly  carried  out  for  the  occupation  of  the 
  Mashonaland  --James  Bryce. 
 
  {Great  Trek},  the  great  emigration  of  Boers  from  Cape  Colony 
  which  began  in  1836,  and  resulted  in  the  founding  of  the 
  South  African  Republic  and  Orange  Free  State. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  trek 
  n  1:  (South  African)  a  journey  by  ox  wagon  (especially  an 
  organized  migration  by  a  group  of  settlers) 
  2:  any  long  and  difficult  trip 




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