"person who drives a team of horses" (especially in hauling freight), 1776, from team (n.) + -ster. Transferred to motor truck drivers by 1907.

also fork-lift, by 1953, short for fork-lift truck (1946), from fork (n.) + lift (n.).

"covered truck or wagon," 1829, shortening of caravan. Century Dictionary suggests this was perhaps regarded as *carry-van.

1776, "to stab," from jack-knife (n.). Intransitive meaning "to fold or bend" the body is said to date from the time of the American Civil War. The truck accident verbal sense is from 1949. Related: Jackknifed; jackknifing.

also fire-power "effectiveness of military fire," 1891, from fire (n.) + power (n.).

"morbid fear of fire," 1871, from pyro- "fire" + -phobia "fear."

also fire-light, "light emitted by an open fire," Old English fyrleoht; see fire (n.) + light (n.).

1660s, "pertaining to or resembling fire," from Latin igneus "of fire, fiery; on fire; burning hot," figuratively "ardent, vehement," from ignis "fire, a fire," extended to "brightness, splendor, glow;" figuratively "rage, fury, passion," from PIE root *egni- "fire" (source also of Sanskrit agnih "fire, sacrificial fire," Old Church Slavonic ogni, Lithuanian ugnis "fire"). Geological meaning "produced by volcanic forces" is from 1791, originally in distinction from aqueous. Earlier in the sense "fiery" were ignean (1630s), ignic (1610s).

also fire-wood, late 14c., from fire (n.) + wood (n.).

also fire-ball, 1550s, from fire (n.) + ball (n.1).