Trunked
adj, verb
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of trunk form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Having some specific type of trunk. in-compounds, not-comparable
"large-trunked trees"
- 2 Cut off, severed; mutilated. not-comparable, obsolete
"from the head the body sundred quight. / So him dismounted low, he did compell / On foot with him to matchen equall fight; / The truncked beast fast bleeding, did him fowly dight."
- 3 Of a two-way radio system: using a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios. not-comparable
Example
More examples"a picture of a two-trunked elephant"
Etymology
From trunk + -ed.
Related phrases
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