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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
trek
    n 1: a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by
         a group of settlers)
    2: any long and difficult trip
    v 1: journey on foot, especially in the mountains; "We spent the
         summer trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas"
    2: make a long and difficult journey; "They trekked towards the
       North Pole with sleds and skis"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Trek \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.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   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.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Trek \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.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Thesaurus Results for Trek:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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