treck

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treck - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]