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.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)