Meaning of TREK
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- [n] any long and difficult trip
- [n] (South African) a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers)
- [v] make a long and difficult journey; "They trekked towards the North Pole with sleds and skis"
- [v] journey on foot, esp. in the mountains; "We spent the summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas"
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\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.
\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.
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