truck

Hist. Scots law. The payment of wages in scrip or goods. • Truck systems, once common where workers had to live in isolated areas and depended on company stores for food and clothing, were abolished in the 19th century.

truck. Hist. Scots law. The payment of wages in scrip or goods. • Truck systems, once common where workers had to live in isolated areas and depended on company stores for food and clothing, were abolished in the 19th century. “Truck was payment not in money but in goods or tickets which could be exchanged