Trek /(?)/
Trek
v. i.
imp. & p. p. Trekked; p. pr. & vb. n. Trekking
- To draw or haul a load, as oxen. [South Africa]
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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.
Trek
n.
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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.
Phrases & Compounds
- 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.