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Trunk

//tɹʌŋk// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname from German.

Noun

1
Part of a body.; The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
2
a long flexible snout as of an elephant wordnet
3
Part of a body.; The torso; especially, the human torso.
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compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools wordnet
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Part of a body.; The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

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luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage wordnet
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A container.; A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
"There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors."
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the body excluding the head and neck and limbs wordnet
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A container.; A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
"To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks"
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the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber wordnet
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A container.; The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car. Canada, US
"I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk."
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A container.; A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
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A channel for flow of some kind.; A major circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment. US
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A channel for flow of some kind.; A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
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A channel for flow of some kind.; A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
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A channel for flow of some kind.; A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter archaic
"He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk."
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A channel for flow of some kind.; A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
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In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
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The main line or body of anything.
"the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches"
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The main line or body of anything.; A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
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The main line or body of anything.; The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
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A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
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Ellipsis of swimming trunks. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, in-plural

Verb

1
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate. obsolete, transitive
"Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke."
2
To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. transitive
3
To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Borrowed from German Trunk, also a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.

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