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.
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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 the Orange Free State.
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