v. Obs. (exc. dial.) Forms: 1 trucian, 2–3 truke, 3 trukie, 3–4 troke, 5 truche, (8 dial. truck). [OE. trucian, ulterior origin unascertained.]
1. intr. To fail; to be wanting or lacking.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom. (Th.), II. 42. Ne trucað heora nan ana ðurh unmihte.
c. 1205. Lay., 16416. Þa iseh Hængest þæt his help trukede [c. 1275 trokede].
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 68. Bute ȝif þe ilke þridde, oðer stu[n]de trukie.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 105. Til domes-dai ne sal it troken.
a. 1800. Pegge, Suppl. Grose, s.v., A cow is said to truck when her milk fails. North.
b. with dative of person.
c. 1122. O. E. Chron., an. 1090. He underʓeat þæt his ʓesworene men him trucedon.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 230. Ȝif bileaue him trukede.
a. 1240. Lofsong, in Cott. Hom., 213. Bihold, heie louerd, hu monnes help trukeð me.
c. To fail or be unable to do something. rare–1.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 1988. Loo here a gloue full of graynes … And þou truches [Dubl. MS. And yf þou thynkes] þaim to tell [L. quod si facere non valebis], þen [etc.].
2. trans. To deceive, beguile.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 35. Heo us truket þenne we lest weneð.
a. 1225. Juliana, 7. Ah ha truste upon him þat ne truked na mon.
13[?]. Sir Beues (A.) 3268. Ful wel him þouȝte … Þat him trokede a gret gile, For he was in þe castel be-loke.
Hence † Troking (truking) vbl. sb., failure, lack; deceit; also † Troke (truke) sb. (rare–1), failure, want, lack.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 79. Ierusalem bitacneð griþes sihþe, and ierico trukinge of lihte.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 12. Þis nis bute a trukunge & a fals gile.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 3508. Help ðe nedful ðat he ne be dead, for truke of ðin helpe.
