Trunk-maker
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks).
- 2 A critic who pounds upon the benches in a show of approval. obsolete
"This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him."
Example
More examples"This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him."
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