Home › Words › T › troaktroak/tɹəʊk/troak means barter; exchange; truck.troak is pronounced /tɹəʊk/.EtymologyFrom Scots troak.nounBarter; exchange; truck.Small wares.Familiar intercourse.verbTo barter or trade, especially outside a government monopoly.e.g.“What's this for cash your tapster troaks, / That colics and affronts the fowks?” — 1812, William Rankin, “A Friendly Hint to a Porter Brewer”, in Poems, on Different Subjects, Archibald Allardice, page 97:To carry out familiar intercourse.e.g.“In those days, when Prince and Adam were my heroes, I had no "troakings" with lassies. "Troakings" came afterwards, and these deserve a whole essay to themselves.” — 1901, J. H. Balfour Browne, “‘Roaring Games’”, in Essays in Paradox, Longmans, Green & Co., page 152:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.trucking 63% match — Trading, bartering. vs troak →exchange 62% match — An act of exchanging or trading. vs troak →truckman 62% match — One who does business in the way of barter or exchange. vs troak →merchand 59% match — To trade; to traffic. vs troak →scorse 58% match — barter; exchange; trade vs troak →barter 58% match — An exchange of goods or services without the use of money. vs troak →outtrade 58% match — To trade more or better than. vs troak →countertrade 58% match — Exchange of goods or services that are paid for, in whole or part, with other goods or services. vs troak →