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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

... the first Dutchman to introduce the prickly-pear into the Karoo. It was a great treasure then, being looked upon as good fodder for beast and ostrich in time of drought, and the boy used to be beaten if he did not properly water the leaves which were being laboriously preserved on the great trek into the desert. Unfortunately, the preservation had been so complete that it was now the ruin of many a fine Karoo estate, springing up everywhere, smothering other growths and destroying, with its tiny ...

— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley

... had to be left behind, it would have been smashed to pieces in the night march. Rhes pulled him up into the saddle before him, locking his body into place with a steel-hard arm. The trek continued. ...

— Deathworld • Harry Harrison

... opinion, which he sent to England to be reprinted in Church papers, or to the Home Government to be published in Blue-books. In due course these documents reached South Africa again, where they were translated into Dutch and became incidentally one of the causes of the Great Trek. ...

— The Ghost Kings • H. Rider Haggard

... British officer in charge of the district by handing in rusty and obsolete Martini-Henris or a venerable blunderbuss which nobody had used since ancestral Boer shot lions with it in the mediaeval days of the first great trek. The buried Mausers came in very ...

— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War • Ben Viljoen

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