trunkn.
/trʌŋk/, U.S. /trəŋk/ I. The main part of something as distinguished from its appendages.† 3. A dead body, a corpse; also, the body considered apart from the soul or life. Obsolete.† 5. The scale of a map or plan; see scale n.3 9. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. The main stem of a tree, as distinct from the roots and branches; the bole or stock.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > stem, trunk, or bole
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1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos iv. sig. Biiijv (heading) How Eneas..hewe the troncke of a tree, oute of the whiche yssued bloode.
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 161 A golden truncke of a tree.
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 14 Cut away all his twigs..burying his trunck in the crust of the earth.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 113 With Trunks of Elms and Oaks, the Hearth they load. View more context for this quotation
1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 103 The roots of trees grow in proportion to their trunks and branches.
1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 21 These were formed from a single trunk of oak.
b. figurative or in figurative context.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > and broadness > person
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1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. K5v In steed of a louing and contented husbande, to giue her a withered olde truncke.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. P2, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) For his stature a dwarfe, for his person, a trunck; for his qualities, a dogge.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 70 You consenting too't, Would barke your honor from that trunke you beare, And leaue you naked. View more context for this quotation
1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xv. 117 His indowments were divine;..yet blocks and truncks are wont now to lift up themselves higher in their own conceit than he could be tempted to do.
1839 H. Rogers Ess. II. iii. 140 While the trunk of the language remains the same, the twigs and frailer branches are torn away by the storm.
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 81 Different offshoots which had from time to time separated themselves from the main trunk of Presbyterianism.
c. transferred. The shaft of a column; also, the dado or die of a pedestal.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > shaft of column
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > pedestal > dado
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1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Ciiv Scapus,..being the troncke or body of the pillor.
1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 124 [The Pedestal] is likewise called Truncus the Trunk..also Abacus, Dado, Zocco.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Trunk,.. the Fust, or Shaft of a Column with that Part of the Pedestal between the Base and the Cornice, call'd the Dye.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1048 Trunk, that part of a pilaster which is contained between the base and the capital.
d. (See quot. 1950.) Cf. trunk dial n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
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strike-or-silent1875
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trunk1899
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clock spring1933
1899 F. J. Britten Old Clocks & Watches 316 I am able to give an engraving of a very early specimen of a long-case clock... This case is of oak and panelled. The head is fixed on the trunk, and will not take off.
1950 D. de Carle Watchmakers' & Clockmakers' Encycl. Dict. 188/1 Trunk, refers to the body or main part of the case of a long-case clock. The case is formed of three parts, the trunk, the Hood..and the Plinth.
1978 Times 17 June 9/5 A dial clock is basically a clock with a round dial which hangs on the wall, or a round dial with a trunk underneath, which is called a trunk dial or drop dial.
2. † b. Heraldry. The head of a beast cut off immediately behind the horns or ears, i.e. caboched; cf. trunked adj.1 2. Obsolete. rare.
a. The human body, or that of an animal, without the head, or esp. without the head and limbs, or considered apart from these; in Entomology the thorax. Also transferred and figurative.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [noun]
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > thorax
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > torso
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a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxviiv His hed stryken of, & the Trunke of his body hanged by chaynes vpon ye common gybet of Parys.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxiii. f. lxxxxii There was Heddys Armys, Leggys, and Trunkys of Dede mennys Bodyes lyinge as thycke as Flowres growe in tyme of may.
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Gij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens In diuiding ye tronke which is betwene the necke & the legges, is two great capacytees.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 336 His head smitten off, and the truncke of his body throwen into the fire.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ix. 84 There [will I] cut off thy most vngracious head;..Leauing thy trunke for Crowes to feed vpon. View more context for this quotation
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 229. ¶1 The Trunc of a Statue which has lost the Arms, Legs, and Head.
1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray v. (ad fin.) Blasted be the hand That struck my Guilford! Oh, his bleeding trunk Shall live in these distracted eyes for ever!
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 26 The front, or back part of the trunk of the body.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxviii. 48 The second portion of the body is the Trunk, which is interposed between the head and the abdomen.
1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 4 The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 7 In the trunk [of the Rat] we observe that the spines of the dorsal vertebræ..point backwards.
1913 Times 9 Aug. 4/1 A tendency to hairlessness on the trunk and limbs.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > parts of creatures > caboched head
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1486 Coote Armuris sig. bv, in Bk. St. Albans Tronkys be calde in armys any bestys hede or neck Ikytt chagikli [= jaggedly] a sonder.
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the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun]
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1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. iii. 151 Vnckle draw you neare, To shed obsequious teares vpon this trunke . View more context for this quotation
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 167 If on the tenth day following, Thy banisht truncke be found in our dominions. View more context for this quotation
1611 B. Jonson Catiline v. sig. O3 His Troopes Couer'd that earth, they' had fought on, with their trunkes . View more context for this quotation
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 83. ⁋3 This poor meagre Trunk of mine is a very ill Habitation for Love.
4.
a. Anatomy. The main body or line of a blood vessel, nerve, or similar structure, as distinct from its branches; also transferred the main line of a river, railway, telegraph or telephone, road or canal system; see trunk-drainage n., trunk-glacier n. at Compounds 1b, trunk line n. Also figurative.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > the main part
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1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 906 The lesser Trunke creepeth along the inside of the Legge..and in his progresse sprinkleth diuers surcles into the skine.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 352 The Arteries join'd on each side in the same Original Trunk.
1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 246 Small rivers that fall immediately into the great trunk of the Mississippi.
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom vi. 88 The oviferous canals..uniting on each side of the body into two principal trunks.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxx. 396 Not only the nervous filaments..may be affected, but also the main trunk of the nerve.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxviii. 210 Like the main trunk of an exorbitant egoism.
b. plural. In Stock Exchange language, short for Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, or its stock.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock > types of
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1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Feb. 5/3 Trunks have risen, partly in sympathy with American, and also on a much better traffic than was expected.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec. 8/1 A bull account in Trunks is always followed by a bad revenue statement.
c. Telephony.
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(a) A telephone line connecting two exchanges a long way apart or in different telephone areas; also (U.S.), a line connecting exchanges within the same area (cf. toll call n. at toll n.1 Compounds).
(b) A line connecting selectors or the like of different rank within an exchange.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > exchange > exchange equipment
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1889 W. H. Preece & J. Maier Telephone 249 This switchboard is required to distribute the trunks between the different offices [sc. exchanges], and also to enable the testing of all the trunk and subscribers' lines to be carried on from one central point.
1908 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 41 120 In America the local term remains the same, the junction is called ‘trunk’, and our trunk is called a ‘toll’ or ‘long-distance’ line.
1921 W. Aitken Automatic Telephone Syst. I. 4 The designation of the lines interconnecting apparatus at different switching stages..is somewhat confusing. The American generally speaks of these as trunks, which practically is equivalent to our junctions... For example, the circuits between first and second preselectors,..second and third selectors, and third selectors and connectors, are all trunks or junctions... Very commonly the lines between exchanges in this country [sc. Britain], and for the use of which an extra charge is made.., are known as trunks. For these the American terms toll line or long-distance line is used.
1925 C. A. Wright Telephone Communication ii. 33 It is necessary in central-energy systems to serve districts of more than ten thousand lines by means of a number of central offices connected by trunk circuits or trunks.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) XIII. 433/1 When the extension user dials the first digit, the wipers of the first selector step upward to the level corresponding to the digit dialed, and automatically step around in a horizontal arc..until they find an idle trunk.
1978 Sci. Amer. June 90/2 A modern telephone exchange is connected not only to its own subscribers but also, through special lines called trunks, to other exchanges serving other subscribers.
1978 P. H. Smale Telecommunication Syst. I. vii. 60 There are various grades of exchange in order of importance... There are also various grades of interconnecting line, for example subscribers lines, junctions and trunks, and again the number gets fewer as length, importance and cost increase.
(c) plural. The operators who deal with trunk calls. colloquial.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > operator
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operator1972
1889 W. H. Preece & J. Maier Telephone xx. 353 As the trunk operators had too much to do..a special plan was arranged by which a subscriber requiring a connection to another town mentions the word ‘trunk’ to the ordinary operator.]
1947 N. Cardus Autobiogr. iii. 233 He rang me up at my Manchester house; he was speaking from Harrogate. When ‘trunks’ gave me notice of his call I expected something urgent.
1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds ix. 203 Give me trunks, please, switch... I want to put an urgent call through.
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1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation iii. ii. sig. H ii This the Maryners call the truncke or scale of leaques.
1574 W. Bourne Regim. for Sea (1577) xviii. 47 b As you may see in measuring it by the trunke of your carde there.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. xxviii. f. 325v To knowe the distance of places,..there is woont to be set downe in the Mariners Carde a scale, otherwise called by the Mariners a Tronke.
II. A chest, box, case, etc. (supposed to have been originally made out of a tree-trunk).† 6. A chest, coffer, box. Obsolete in gen. sense.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > chest
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1462 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 150 (MED) Item, payd ffor a new tronke ffor my lord whych was delyvared to Willyam off Wardrope.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxxi. f. lxvii He ordeyned a Cheste or Trunke of clene Syluer to thentent yt all suche Iuellys and ryche Gyftes..shuld therein be kepte.
1592 R. Greene Thirde Pt. Conny-catching sig. E4 At the beds feete there stood a hansome truncke, wherein was very good linnen.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 94 Having the Copies of all my dispatches in a great Trunk in my house at London.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 62 So curious and elaborate a Work might deserve a better Fate, than to lye moulding in the bottom of a Trunk.
a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 462 The little trunk she holds in her left hand is the Acerra.., in which the frankincense was preserv'd.
1726 G. Shelvocke tr. Imperial Comm. in Voy. round World Pref. p. xvii No chests, boxes, or trunks, which shall be found in the ship, when taken, shall be open'd.
7.
a. A box, usually lined with paper or linen, and with a rounded top, for carrying clothes and other personal necessaries when travelling; originally covered with leather, now often of canvas, painted metal, etc. Cf. portmanteau n. 1.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling boxes
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1609 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 181 To the porter, for the carridge of the gentlewomens truncke..xvd.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 8 Jan. (1971) IV. 8 We were forced to send for a smith to break open her Trunke.
1709 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 93. ⁋3 He had got his Trunk and his Books all packed up to be transported into Foreign Parts.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 22 I like to see their horses and trunks taken care of.
1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond viii Away I went..with a couple of bran new suits from Von Stiltz's in my trunk.
1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 62 Ring the bell, and have your trunks packed.
b. North American. The luggage compartment of a motor vehicle; = boot n.3 4c.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > rear part > rear part arranged to carry luggage
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1929 Cosmopolitan Nov. 210 (advt.) Six wire wheels and trunk rack standard equipment.
1930 Automobile Topics 6 Dec. 359/3 Rear-end trunks were larger and more prevalent. In one line of cars they were designed into the rear of the body itself.]
1931 Amer. Home Apr. 197 The luggage belongs in the trunk on the rear of the car.
1937 Sat. Evening Post 2 Oct. 28/3 The enlarged trunks will hold enough luggage to carry you around the world.
1951 J. W. Vale Mod. Auto Body & Fender Repair xiii. 162 The deck compartment, sometimes referred to as the rear trunk compartment or the turtle back..may be repaired in the same way.
1960 Times 14 Sept. 12/6 When we hired a car in California we found that a car..bristles with surprises. You..find the spare wheel in the trunk.
1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 24 Apr. (1970) 119 Lyndon had transferred to an open convertible. Along the way he made three unscheduled stops, standing on the trunk of his car.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 49/9 (advt.) Extra lighting inside, in hood, in trunk.
1975 N. Luard Robespierre Serial v. 34 The Belgian unlocked the trunk, stood by the porter while he lifted out two suitcases.
8.
a. A perforated floating box in which live fish are kept.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-pond or -tank
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 504 Trunke, for kepynge of fysche, gurgustium.
1450–1 in R. E. G. Kirk Acct. Abingdon Abbey (1892) 130 In factura vnius tronke pro piscibus custodiendis.
1540 in R. G. Marsden Select Pleas Court Admiralty (1894) I. 99 He toke the tronke in his hands and hallyd it up to the land and there put forth alle the fysh that was in the tronke into a basket.
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 70 Fishes also, of which they have so great draughts, that they are forced to keep them in trunks and ponds.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxv. 393 If the pheasants escape from the mew, or the fishes from the trunk,..they become ferae naturae again.
1898 J. K. Fowler Rec. Old Times 108 In the midst was a large shallow pond,..in which was kept an eel trunk, consisting of a strong iron~bound box about four feet long and two feet wide and deep, perforated with holes, and a lid fastened with lock and key... In this trunk or box were kept live eels, the trunk having a strong iron chain attached to it..; this enabled the trunk to be hauled up a sloping bank.
b. An open box or case (containing from 80 to 90 lb.) in which fresh fish are sold wholesale.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > quantity of fish > container for
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1883 S. Plimsoll in 19th Cent. July 147 The box, which is called by many names, as ‘van’, ‘machine’, ‘tank’, ‘trunk’, &c.
1883 Daily News 27 July 7/1 Soles and such fish are sold in open boxes, without any covering whatever, called trunks.
1909 Times 12 Aug. 11/6 Two trunks of plaice made the remarkably high price of £3 10s. per trunk.
c. A net or trap for lobster-catching. dialect.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > for lobsters or crabs
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partan cage1899
1835 ‘S. Oliver’ Rambles Northumberland v. 210 For catching lobsters the fishermen of Holy Island mostly use small hoop-nets, called by them trunks.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Trunk,..an iron hoop with a bag, used to catch crabs and lobsters.
9. Mining. A long shallow trough in which lead or tin ore is dressed.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for dressing ore
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1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 273 The miner's Tearms..Fleaks, Knockings, Coestid, Trunks and Sparks of oar.
1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 579 The trunk was a pit ten feet long, three wide, and nine inches deep.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1244 The rough is washed in buddles..the slimes in trunks.
1851 T. Tapping Chron. Customs Lead Mines Gloss. s.v. The trunks are agitated with water, and thereby the metals separated from the base minerals.
10.
a. A box-like passage for light, air, water, or solid objects, usually made of boards; a shaft, conduit; a chute. Now chiefly technical.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > shaft
funnel1555
trunk1610
shaft1820
well hole1829
1610 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives 1117 He was newly come from Trophonius truncke or hole.
1632 in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 301 Truncks for bringing in of light into mens howses..truncks for Jackewaights or conveyance of water.
1642 C. Vernon Considerations Excheqver 42 Which Bill they..put..downe through a Trunke made for that purpose, into the Chamberlaines Court.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Hj As to..having the Trunks in the Roof of the Drift, that never does well.
1760 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 126 A trunk, for bringing the water upon the wheel, was fixed.
1861 R. Willis in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 173 An opening or horizontal trunk through the rising seats, by which the solar ray may be directed upon the Lecture-table.
1886 Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 38 §6 Any bridge, waggon-way, or trunk for conveying minerals or other product from any mine or quarry.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Trunk, a wooden tube much used in corn mills to convey grain or flour to or from the mills. Any wooden tube.
b. spec. A chute through which coal is emptied from the wagons into lighters, etc. dialect.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > chute for passing coal, etc., into receptacle
pass1671
trunk1725
chute1829
coal drop1864
1725 T. Thomas in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 104 Those [steathes] that are covered with timber work are called trunks.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Trunk-staith, a coal-spout at a shipping place. In former times a coal-staith was called a ‘dyke’, or trunk if a shoot or spout was used.
c. Organ-building. Short for wind-trunk n. at wind n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > conducting pipe
port-vent1728
conveyance1840
trunk1852
wind-trunk1858
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 44 The principal canal..into which the wind passes from the bellows, is called the trunk.
d. In a steam-engine, A tubular piston-rod large enough to allow of the lateral movement of the connecting-rod when jointed directly to the piston.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > other parts
fire door1765
hand gear1805
throat pipe1824
cataract1832
cut-off1849
coil1852
pot-lid1856
main centre1858
trunk1859
piston sleeve1872
1859 W. J. M. Rankine Man. Steam Engine (1861) 481 In large engines there are sometimes more than one piston rod and stuffing~box, and sometimes a tubular piston rod called a trunk.
e. Nautical. A watertight shaft passing through the decks of a vessel, for loading, coaling, etc.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in deck > vertical aperture > shaft passing through decks
trunk1862
ash-shoot1889
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xii. 2/1 The lower deck..is made of iron, water-tight, and fitted with water-tight trunks, to communicate with the upper deck, so that access can be had at all times distinct from the other decks.
1877 W. H. White Man. Naval Archit. i. 29 Where openings have to be made in a watertight deck or platform, either watertight covers must be fitted to the openings or water~tight trunks, carried to a sufficient height above the load~line, must be built around them.
f. See quot. 1877.
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1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Trunk,..5. (Hatting), the conduit, tube, or guiding-box which guides the air-currents and directs the fur fibers from the picker to the cone, in hat-body forming machines.
g. Salt-making. A box-like cover placed over an evaporating-pan.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > equipment
pail1481
walling-lead1611
walma1661
Neptune1662
loot1669
ship1669
clearerc1682
cribc1682
barrow1686
hovel1686
leach-trough1686
salt-pan1708
sun pond1708
sun pan1724
scrape-pan1746
taplin1748
drab1753
room1809
thorn house1853
thorn-wall1853
fore-heater1880
pike1884
trunk1885
1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 155 In..Cheshire..the evaporating-pans are at times employed quite open and exposed to the sky, but nowadays they are mostly surrounded with sheds,..furnished with ventilating openings in the roof... On the Continent, all except the fine and butter-salt pans are generally covered in with wooden trunks, flat on top with sides converging upwards, thus forming an elongated truncated cone about 5 ft. high over the pan.
h. The watertight case in which the centreboard of a sailing-boat works.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > keel and kelson > keel > centreboard case
trunk1894
1894 Westm. Gaz. 20 Aug. 7/2 The centre board had not been lost, but had been jammed in the trunk and was held fast.
1897 Outing 30 228/2 The centerboard trunk is made long so that the board may be dropped at any desired point forward or aft.
i. U.S. A floodgate or sluice controlling the flow of water into and out of rice-fields.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > irrigation devices
acequia madre1835
trunk1856
irrigation-wheel1864
lawn-sprinklera1884
levada1885
knapsack sprayer1897
lawn-sprayer1943
1856 in Documentary Hist. Amer. Industr. Society (1910) I. 120 Trunk-minders undertake the whole care of the trunks.
1903 ‘P. Pennington’ Woman Rice Planter (1913) i. 8 Each field has a very small flood-gate (called a trunk), which opens and closes to let the water in and out.
1939 Sat. Evening Post 10 June 37/2 I opened all my rice-field trunks, so that the flowed field inside would equalize the pressure from the flood outside, thus saving my banks.
III. A pipe or tube.† 11. A cylindrical case to contain or discharge explosives or combustibles; the barrel of a mortar, the case of a rocket, etc. Obsolete.† 12. A pipe used as a speaking-tube or ear-trumpet. Obsolete.† 13. A hollow tube from which a dart or pellet is shot by blowing; a blow-gun, a pea-shooter.† 14. More fully perspective trunk: A telescope; cf. trunk-glass n., trunk-spectacle n. at Compounds 2.† 16. plural. Also small trunks: an old game: = troll-madam n.; cf. trucks n. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > device for discharging missiles through tube > [noun] > tube to discharge or contain explosives
trunk1548
1548 in Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 177 ij dosan of tronques for wild fyer.
1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline i. 12 To haue such gouernours as are..skilfull..in the making of trunkes, bawles, arrowes, and all other sortes of wilde fire.
1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 57 Fire-works..as Crackers, Trunks, etc.
a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 61 None could passe the same without eminent danger of fallinge under the fumie reache of that murtheringe troncke.
a1660 Aphorismical Discov. in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1879) I. 102 Within the truncke some wilde fire in maner and forme of a bombe and granados.
1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (rev. ed.) App. p. xxxiii The cases or trunks of rockets.
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the world > health and disease > healing > audiology or audiometry > [noun] > aids to defective hearing
trunk1546
otacousticon1615
otacoustic1617
ear-spectacle1626
sarbacane1644
acoustic1659
acousticon1660
hearing-trumpet1725
ear trumpet1731
trumpet1774
otophone1839
auricle1864
audiphone1880
osteophone1892
microphonograph1897
hearing aid1922
deaf-aid1934
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > sound magnification or reproduction > [noun] > speaking trumpet or tube
trunk1546
speaking-trumpet1671
stentorophonic tube1686
whispering-trumpet1688
stentorian trumpet1690
trumpet1696
voice pipe1839
voice tube1839
whispering-tube1857
speaking-tube1889
megaphone1896
meg1937
loudhailer1941
bullhorn1955
1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 70 The roode spake these wordes, or els a knaue monke behynde hym in a truncke through the wall.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. 255 Not to heare but by a trunke put to his eare.
1631 J. Shirley Traytor iii. i Ha! are there no trunks to convey secret voices?
1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 75 Which..did but pass through him as a trunk through which a man speaks.
1704 J. Swift Full Acct. Battel between Bks. in Tale of Tub 254 They whisper to each other thro' a long hollow Trunk.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > toy weapons > [noun]
poop1489
pellet1553
trunk1553
elder-gun1600
popgun1649
spitter1688
pluff1695
whistling arrowa1718
pea-shooter1782
pea gun1812
detonating ball1814
pea-blower1821
pen-gun1821
pipegun1828
torpedo1831
spring gun1837
putty blower1861
tweaker1862
pluffera1866
bean-shooter1890
putty shooter1896
water pistol1897
stink bomb1915
cap-pistol1920
cap-gun1931
laser gun1961
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > device for discharging missiles through tube > [noun] > blow-pipe
trunk1553
sumpitan1634
sarbacane1765
blowpipe1825
sumpit1831
blow-gun1864
blow-tube1871
Indian reed1877
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Evjv They..blowe them [arrows] oute of a trunke as we doe pellets of claye.
a1652 R. Brome New Acad. iv. i. 66 in Five New Playes (1659) All my..tops, gigs, balls, cat and catsticks, pot guns, key guns, trunks, tillers, and all.
1755 B. Martin Misc. Corr. Oct. 170 Two youths..in the gallery of Covent-garden Play-house..shooting Peas thro' a Tin Trunk in the Faces of the Audience.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. §1 A substitute for the gun,..a long hollow tube called a trunk.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope
trunk1610
trunk-glass1613
trunk-spectacle1613
telescope1619
tube1651
field glass1782
look-see1925
1610 C. Heydon in W. Camden Epist. (1691) 130 With one of our ordinary Trunks I have told eleven stars in the Pleiades.
1620 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 414 A long perspective-trunke with the convexe glasse fitted to the said hole [in a camera obscura], and the concave taken out at the other end.
a1637 B. Jonson Newes from New World 85 in Wks. (1640) III Fac. From the Moone!.. Pr. Oh by a Trunck! I know it, a thing no bigger than a Flute-case; A neighbour of mine, a spectacle-maker, has drawn the Moone through it at the boare of a whistle.
15. † c. The long pointed bill of the heron. Obsolete. rare.
a. The elongated proboscis of the elephant; also transferred the prolonged flexible snout of the tapir, etc.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > elephant > parts of > trunk
snoutc1220
nosea1398
hand1572
trunk1589
promuscis1600
proboscis1607
trump1648
proboss1659
1589 R. Baker in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 138 The Elephant..With water fils his troonke right hie and blowes it on the rest.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 816 There was another strange creature in Nicaragua..like a blacke Hogge, with..a short truncke or snowt like an Elephant.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 45 An Elephant..his Governour can make him do what he pleases with his Trunck.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 272 Two tame elephants..that caress the indignant animal with their trunks.
c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 685 The trunks, ears, and other parts of these elephants, were painted red and other colours.
b. slang. The human nose.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun]
noseeOE
naseeOE
nebeOE
billa1000
nesec1175
grunyie?a1513
gnomon1582
nib1585
proboscis1631
handle to (also of, on) one's face1675
snot-gall1685
nozzle1689
bowsprit1690
smeller1699
snitch1699
trunk1699
vessel1813
index1817
conk1819
sneezer1820
scent box1826
snorter1829
snuff-box1829
bugle1847
beak1854
nasal1854
sniffer1858
boko1859
snoot1861
snorer1891
horn1893
spectacles-seat1895
razzo1899
beezer1915
schnozzle1926
schnozzola1929
schnozz1930
snozzle1930
honker1942
hooter1958
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Trunk, a Nose.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Trunk, a nose [in various phrases].
1901 Remin. Dollar Acad. 87 The deep bass rumbling sound, which was emitted from his trunk.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > genus Ardea (heron) > parts of
trunk1575
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 160 A liue Hearon, vppon the vpper part of whose bill or truncke you must conuey the ioynt of a reede or Cane.
d. The proboscis of some molluscs; also the proboscis of various insects. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc
ungulaa1382
mantlea1475
trunk1661
diaphragm1665
lid1681
operculum1681
ear1688
beard1697
corslet1753
scar1793
opercle1808
pleura1826
pallium1834
byssus1835
cephalic ganglia1835–6
opercule1836
lingual ribbon1839
tube1839
cloak1842
test1842
collar1847
testa1847
rachis1851
uncinus1851
land-shell1853
mantle cavity1853
mesopodium1853
propodium1853
radula1853
malacology1854
gill comb1861
pallial cavity1862
tongue-tootha1877
mesopode1877
odontophore1877
pallial chamber1877
shell-gland1877
rasp1879
protopodium1880
ctenidium1883
osphradium1883
shell-sac1883
tooth-ribbon1883
megalaesthete1885
rachidian1900
scungille1953
tentacle-sheath-
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > mouth-parts or trophi > proboscis
nib1585
beak1658
promuscis1658
proboscisa1660
trunk1661
probe1664
trump1752
antlia1826
siphuncle1826
spiritrompe1831
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B6 The Mollusca,..some have acetabula, and two long trunks, which they use as anchors in stormes.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 2 At his [the flea's] snout is fixed a Proboscis, or hollow trunk or probe.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 31 Insects, which wound the tender buds with a long hollow Trunk, and deposit an Egg in the hole.
1805 P. Wakefield Domest. Recreat. (1806) i. 5 There is as great a variety in the trunks of insects as in their antennae.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun]
troll-madam1572
nine holes1573
pigeonholes1608
small trunksc1610
hole1611
trucks1671
roly-poly1707
Mississippi1728
bumble-puppy1794
bubble the justice1801
bagatelle1819
cockamaroo1850
pigs in clover1889
pinball1911
pinball game1911
Skee-Ball1923
Corinthian bagatelle1933
pachinko1949
c1610 Christmas Prince (1922) 143 Why say you not that Munday will bee drunke Keeps all vnruly wakes & playes at trunkes?
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trou Madame, the Game called Trunkes, or the Hole.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 346 The ordinary recreations which we haue in Winter,..are Cardes, Tables,..the Philosophers game, small truncks,..&c.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. iv. 196 Billiards, Kettle-pins, Noddy-boards, Tables, Truncks, Shovell-boards, Fox and Geese, or the like.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Trunks, a kind of Play otherwise call'd Troll-Madame and Pigeon~holes.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 56 Nine-holes, or Trunks, a game played with a long piece of wood or bridge with nine arches cut in it... Each player has two flattened balls, which he aims to bowl edge-ways under the arches; he scores the number marked over the arch he bowls through.
IV. Breeches or drawers, and related uses.
17. plural.† a. = trunk-hose n. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > trunk breeches
trunks1582
galligaskin1592
trunk slops1592
bullion1594
trunk-hose1637
trunk-breeches1662
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Fj Truncks the dosen xii.s.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. iii. sig. G2v Sixe great slopps, Bigger then three Dutch Hoighs, beside round trunkes, Furnish'd with Pistolets, and Peeces of eight. View more context for this quotation
1652 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 490 There are Pages in trunks that ride behind the coches..cloath trunks billited or garded with velvet.
1672 London Gaz. No. 656/4 His Trunks and Stockings are of grey Worsted.
b. Short breeches of silk or other thin material; in theatrical use, often worn over tights; in quot. 1896 applied to ordinary breeches or knickerbockers.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > other
sausage-hosea1637
buckskina1658
trouser breeches1724
Petershams1819
drab1821
trunks1825
plushes1838
puff breechesc1843
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1463 Theatrical ‘trunks’, or short breeches.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xv. 152 The appearance of Mr. Snodgrass in blue satin trunks and cloak, white silk tights and shoes, and Grecian helmet.
1874 R. Buchanan Kitty Kemble 86 A slim fairy prince in trunks and tights.
1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man xvi David had donned the trunks and laid by the bairn's kilts.
1906 N. Munro in Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 802/1 A right smart Alick in short trunks.
c. Originally U.S. Short tight-fitting drawers worn by swimmers and athletes. swimming trunks: see swimming trunks n. at swimming n. Compounds 1a.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > (suitable) for specific purpose > for swimming or bathing
trunks1883
bathing-drawers1893
bathing trunks1895
bathing slips1904
Speedo1933
swimming trunks1943
bathers1945
cossie1958
baggies1962
jams1966
racer1969
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 July 7/1 Captain Webb attempted his perilous feat of swimming the Niagara Rapids... He wore a pair of silk trunks.
1889 A. C. Gunter That Frenchman! xi. 134 Black-velvet trunks cover his [sc. the wrestler's] hips and thighs.
1891 Daily News 30 May 5/5 The men are together in front of Harvard boathouse in caps, ‘sweaters’, trunks, and canvas shoes.
1894 Ralph in Harper's Mag. Aug. 341 Nude bathing will not be permitted... The use of tights or ‘trunks’ will not be allowed.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 78 Trunks, swimming shorts.
1956 P. Scott Male Child i. vi. 86 Except for a pair of swimming trunks he was naked.
1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xviii. 107 A blond man in very small knitted swimming-trunks.
1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 61 Men's trunks had been in use by professional swimmers and athletes since the 1880s.
d. Knickers; underpants with short legs.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > underpants > short
briefs1934
trunksa1935
short shorts1946
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 705/1 Gent's underwear..Trunk drawers— 18/6.]
a1935 W. Holtby South Riding (1936) iv. vi. 262 Her young body, partially covered by pink brassière, trunks, slippers and white ankle-socks.
1970 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. 1970–71 Autumn–Winter 452 Meridian trunks. New style with shorter leg and continental front.
Compounds
C1. attributive.
a. (In senses 1, 2.)
trunk-armour n.
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1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 165 In these colossal armadillos..the trunk-armour was in one immovable piece, covering the back and sides, and was not divided by bands.
trunk-bark n.
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1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 37 It [Cinchona Condaminea] once yielded great quantities of thick trunk bark, but..is now almost exterminated.
1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 81 From the trunk-bark of a plant of this species [Cinchona Calisaya]..he obtained..5 per cent. of alkaloids.
trunk-bone n.
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1904 Westm. Gaz. 23 Sept. 7/3 A second skull..but no trace of trunk bones can be found.
trunk-diameter n.
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1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 561/2 The Rajah-tree..with a trunk-diameter of six or eight feet.
trunk-muscle n.
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1872 G. M. Humphry Observ. Myology 32 Where the fibres diverge from the trunk-muscle.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 59 Rarely the spasm [of tetany] begins in the trunk muscles.
trunk-rib n.
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1885 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (ed. 4) 495 The anterior trunk-ribs [of the Dinosauria] were double~headed.
trunk-root n.
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1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iii. App. 99 Trunk-Roots are of two kinds:..those that vegetate by a direct descent... The other sort..shoot forth at right Angles with the Trunk.
trunk-scar n.
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1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos xii. 364 The Palm and the Tree-fern show, in their trunk-scars, evidences of organs which have completely died away and disappeared.
b. (In senses 4a, 4b.)
trunk-dealer n.
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1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 Mar. 9/1 Trunk dealers received another disappointment in the traffic, which showed a decrease.
trunk-drainage n.
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1864 C. S. Read in W. White Norfolk 67 Some better system of trunk drainage should be at once adopted.
trunk exchange n.
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1908 Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 1/4 Telephonists employed in trunk exchanges.
trunk-glacier n.
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1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 99 The medial moraine of the trunk glacier.
1875 Wonders Physical World i. ii. 55 To coalesce in one great trunk-glacier.
trunk-jack n. Jack n.2 18a.
trunk-market n. market n. 1d.
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1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 2/4 Trunk~moulding machine, 32 in. long, with dies complete.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 3 Apr. 9/1 A Trunk market wit.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 9/3 Just come into the Trunk market for a second.
trunk principle n.
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1889 P. N. Hasluck Model Engineer's Handybk. 108 The feed pump..is on the trunk principle.
trunk route n.
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1970 Times 2 June (Container Suppl.) p. i/5 Container ships,..capable of carrying as much general cargo in a year on a trunk-route shuttle service as an entire fleet of traditional break-bulk cargo liners.
trunk-sewer n.
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1899 Daily News 6 Dec. 6/6 We cannot possibly deal with local floodings..unless you give us the necessary additional trunk sewers.
trunk-sheath n.
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1893 A. S. Eccles Sciatica 15 The nerves of the trunk~sheath have been stimulated by the cold impression.
trunk stream n.
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1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxi. 149 All the glaciers..are suddenly turned aside where they meet the great trunk stream.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. x. 287 The width of the trunk stream is a little better than one-third of that of its tributaries.
trunk-telegraph n.
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1903 Daily Chron. 7 Oct. 7/1 An underground trunk telegraph line to Scotland.
trunk-telephone adj.
ΚΠ
1909 Westm. Gaz. 17 Apr. 9/4 Sunday duty by females in the trunk telephone department should be abolished.
trunk-traffic n.
trunk-train n.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > main-line train
trunk-train1899
1899 Westm Gaz. 32 Aug. 4/3 It is no light task to make up a trunk train in such satisfactory proportions.
trunk-wire n.
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1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 8 The very great cost of running and maintaining the Trunk wires between the different Exchanges.
1897 Daily News 20 Jan. 10/4 The Postmaster-General..states that..efficient working of the trunk wires is engaging his earnest attention.
c. (In sense 4c.)
trunk circuit n.
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1896 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 25 639 Facilities for through trunking—i.e., connecting two or more trunk circuits at intermediate offices to provide communication between towns not directly connected.
1921 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 59 390/2 (caption) Trunk circuits radiating from London to provincial towns.
d. (In senses 6, 7.)
trunk-boot n. boot n.3 4c.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > hinder part for seating or luggage
boot1608
rumble-tumble1777
boodge1794
budget1794
budget-bar1794
trunk-boot1795
rumble1798
rumbler1805
trunk-board1819
toe-piece1879
1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 70 The carriage..an iron Coach-box on a square trunk Boot, raised on neat carved Blocks.
trunk-buddle n. (see quot.)
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 751 The trunk buddle is..composed of two parts; of a cistern or box into which a stream of water flows, and of a large tank with a smooth level bottom.
trunk-castor n.
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1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Trunk-caster.
trunk-check n.
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1906 M. Nicholson House of 1000 Candles iii I gave him my trunk-checks.
trunk-lid n.
trunk-liner n.
ΚΠ
1905 Daily Chron. 4 Oct. 9/7 Trunk Liner wanted; must be used to glue work.
trunk-lock n.
ΚΠ
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 21 Chest Locks, Trunk Locks, Pad-locks, &c.
trunk-mail n. mail n.1
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling boxes
trussing coffera1387
lode-malea1400
gardeviance1459
trussing mail1485
trussing chest1540
trunk1609
portmanteau trunk1683
hair-trunk1693
mail-trunka1726
trunkie1728
trunk-mail1771
imperial1773
cedar chest1775
Noah's Ark1803
wardrobe trunk1815
dress case1819
yakdan1824
pitara1828
bullock-trunk1844
dress basket1857
Saratoga trunk1857
Saratoga1863
black jack1885
innovation trunk1912
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 21 Tell Gwyllim that she forgot to pack up my flannels and wide shoes in the trunk-mail.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii*. 82 I hope, a'gad, they have not forgotten my trunk-mails of apparel.
trunk room n.
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1698 J. Verney Let. 16 June in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) I. iii. 31 The little long room that is under the Trunk room of the Purple Chamber.
a1752 Ld. Verney Will in Verney Lett. (1930) II. xxxiii. 246 I give to her..all the money & Jewels in the cabinet in the Trynk Room.
1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xvi. 248 Cheek was..led to the trunk-room of the lodging-hall.
1952 E. Wilson Lilly's Story i, in Equations of Love 133 A trunk-room full of the trunks which accompany a large English family in migration.
trunk-seller n.
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1855 A. Trollope Warden xvi. 264 He remembered the shop distinctly; it was next door to a trunk-seller's.
trunk-shop n.
trunk strap n.
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1887 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) I. 40 Jey Singh..would have hanged those Globe-trotters in their trunk-straps.
1970 Country Life 31 Dec. 1296/2 The hood, when up, was secured to the front mudguards by two stout trunk straps.
e. (In senses 10c, 10d.)
trunk-hole n.
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1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building v. 60 In one of these cheeks a trunk-hole may have to be cut for the entrance of the wind.
trunk-piston n.
trunk-plunger n.
f. (In sense 15.)
trunk-bearer n.
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1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 174 The shell of the Trunk-bearers may almost always be known by a notch or canal at the base.
g.
trunk-nosed adj.
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1887 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) I. 114 The Englishman..took off his hat to the tun-bellied, trunk-nosed God of Good-Luck.
1900 R. Kipling in Daily News 9 Mar. 6/2 The temple wherein the ‘tun-bellied’, ‘trunk-nosed’ god Ganesha (the divine Elephant) receives his worshippers.
C2. See also trunk-fish n., trunk line n., trunk-maker n. † trunk-board n. Obsolete a platform for a trunk or trunks at the back of a carriage. † trunk-glass n. Obsolete = sense 14. † trunk-manna n. Obsolete see quot. † trunk-saddle n. Obsolete ? a packsaddle adapted for carrying a trunk or chest.† trunk sleeve n. Obsolete a full, puffed sleeve; cf. sense 17a.† trunk-spectacle n. Obsolete = sense 14. † trunk-wame n. Obsolete a fiddle (dialect).
trunk-alarm n. an alarum which sounds when the trunk-lid is lifted (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1877).
trunk-back n. = trunk-turtle n. (U.S.).
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Dermochelidae > member of (leather-back)
sea-turtlec1612
trunk-turtle1697
leather-back1855
leathery turtle1875
luth1883
trunk-back1883
leather-turtle1884
1883 S. Garman Rept. & Batrach. N. Amer. Introd. 6 Sea Turtles are numerous off the coasts of Florida. ‘Trunk-backs’ or ‘Leather-backs’, Sphargis, are the largest.
trunk-band n. Organ-building a shallow box in the horizontal bellows to which the wind-trunk is attached; also called trunk-lining.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > wind-chest > parts of
purse1852
trunk-band1876
trunk-lining1876
wind-bar1881
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms at Organ Constr. On it [the middle board] rests a strong ridge called the trunk-band or lining, to which the wind trunks can be at any point joined.
1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building vi. 73 A shallow box, say 4 inches deep, upon the middle board, of the same size as the top board. This is called a trunk-band, and is introduced to allow of fixing the wind-trunks.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > hinder part for seating or luggage
boot1608
rumble-tumble1777
boodge1794
budget1794
budget-bar1794
trunk-boot1795
rumble1798
rumbler1805
trunk-board1819
toe-piece1879
1819 B. H. Latrobe Jrnl. (1905) 224 A girl of thirteen or fourteen years old sat up on the trunk board behind.
trunk-brace n. a support or stay for a trunk-lid, to prevent it from falling again when raised (Knight).
trunk-cabin n. a ship's cabin partly above and partly below the upper deck; cf. sense 10e and trunk-deck ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > cabin > partly above the upper deck
trunk-cabin1878
1878 F. O. Davenport On Man-of-War 197 The captain had a small trunk cabin, a little higher and abaft ours.
trunk-call n. a call from one telephone exchange to another.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > call or message > types of
personal call1843
local call1882
ringback1895
long distance1902
private call1907
trunk-call1910
toll call1912
callback1914
overflow1924
picture message1929
alarm call1966
text message1977
text1990
1910 Times 19 Aug. 4/6 The telephone is still open, but..a message into the country usually involves a trunk call.
trunk-case n. that part of a chrysalis case which covers the thorax.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > pupa or chrysalis > case or puparium > part covering thorax
trunk-case1826
thoracotheca1889
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxi. 250 The Trunk-case, divided into the thorax, or upper surface, extending from the head to the dorsal segments of the abdomen.
trunk-deck n. the top of a hatchway trunk projecting above the deck, or a row of these joined so as to form a kind of raised deck ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > upper deck > deck formed by tops of hatchway trunks
trunk-deck1896
1896 Nautical Mag. LXV. 1076 Oscar II..a trunk deck vessel of the type invented by Mr. W. Hök.
trunk dial n. a clock having a long case to accommodate the pendulum.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > pendulum clock
pendulum clock1663
pendule clock1664
pendulum1664
pendulum-piece1734
wag-at-the-wall1825
longcase clock1851
grandfather clock1883
trunk dial1884
grandfather1894
grandmother clock1898
longcase1899
granddaughter clock1926
grandmother1931
granddaughter1968
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 274 Generally trunk dials have half seconds pendulums.
trunk dialling n. (see quot. 1971).
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > methods and procedures
release1882
trunking1896
hunting1912
dialling1927
hunt1927
trunk dialling1952
direct distance dialling1955
direct dialling1958
dial-up1967
1952 Prof. Papers Inst. P.O. Electr. Engineers No. 203. 1 Subscriber Trunk Dialling in the United Kingdom... The possibility of extending the range over which subscribers can dial their own calls has received increasing attention by many telephone administrations.
1959 Ann. Reg. 1958 505 Trunk dialling from Bristol began in December.
1971 Gloss. Electrotechnical, Power Terms (B.S.I.) iii. ii. 20 Trunk dialling, control of an exchange's automatic switching equipment from an exchange in another multi-exchange area over trunk or toll circuits.
1976 Times 20 Dec. (Istanbul Suppl.) p. iv/3 Although international trunk-dialling is promised..it can take anything up to 15 minutes to get a dialling tone..in Istanbul.
trunk-engine n. an engine having a tubular piston-rod; see sense 10d.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > other types of engine > [noun] > other specific engines
ballast engine?1748
reciprocator1769
bellows-engine1834
jack engine1847
power producer1859
trunk-engine1864
naphtha engine1876
jinny1877
barring engine1885
shifter1904
yarder1911
mill1918
rocket1919
booster1944
monobloc1944
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Trunk-engine.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Trunk-engine, a direct-acting steam-engine, in which the end of the connecting-rod is attached to the bottom of a hollow trunk, passing steam-tight through the cylinder cover.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope
trunk1610
trunk-glass1613
trunk-spectacle1613
telescope1619
tube1651
field glass1782
look-see1925
1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies 28 A thing worthy of better observation from the Truncke-glasse.
trunk-leg n. in Crustaceans, a leg attached to the thorax.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > parts of > thorax > leg attached to
pereiopod1856
pereiopodite1877
podite1878
trunk-leg1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 479/2 Of the corresponding pairs of appendages..three..may be all maxillipeds or may help to swell the number of trunk~legs.
trunk-light n. a skylight placed over a trunk or shaft ( Encycl. Dict. 1888).
trunk-limb n. = trunk-leg n.
trunk-lining n. (a) = trunk-band n.; (b) material for lining trunks: cf. trunk-maker n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for lining or stiffening
catgut1731
foundation-muslin1858
trunk-lining1876
Victoria lawn1882
Vilene1954
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > wind-chest > parts of
purse1852
trunk-band1876
trunk-lining1876
wind-bar1881
1876Trunk-lining [see trunk-band n.].
1907 Times 29 Mar. 6/2 Second~hand booksellers..know more about books, have a sounder judgment as to what is literature and what is trunk-lining.
trunk-machine n. a tube or shaft for the conveyance of cotton from one machine to another during the preparatory processes ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).
trunk main n. a large pipe for the conveyance of water, etc. under pressure, as distinguished from the reticulation of smaller mains fed therefrom.
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the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > sap
birch-water1663
trunk-manna1663
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding refreshing or nourishing drink > [noun] > juice or sap that is drunk
trunk-manna1663
1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. iv. 101 The Calabrians..by Incisions obtain from the common Ash Tree..a sweet Juice, so like to the Manna..that the Natives call it in their Language, Manna del corpo, or Trunk-manna.
trunk murder n. a murder after which the body is hidden in a trunk.
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the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > [noun]
manslaughteOE
quellingc1325
manslayingc1384
homicidec1386
homicidyc1386
manslaughterc1390
manquelling1395
murder1488
man-killing1880
trunk murder1905
1905 Daily Mail 15 Apr. 5/4 (heading) The trunk murder. How the bodies were found.
1936 G. Greene Journey without Maps i. i. 11 Another clue in a trunk murder case.
1976 S. Hynes Auden Generation v. 136 The crimes..are actual-sounding crimes: a trunk murder at Paddington station, a girl killed on Streatham Common.
trunk murderer n.
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the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin > types of
assassin1340
Old Man of the Mountain1579
fedai1723
thug1810
nasty man1863
Jack the Ripper1888
ripper1909
trunk murderer1925
sex killer1935
mass-murderer1943
serial murderer1947
psycho-killer1949
serial killer1967
spree killer1983
1925 P. Selver tr. K. Capek Lett. from Eng. 54 At Madame Tussaud's..in the catalogue I found..Arthur Devereux, hanged 1905, known as the ‘trunk murderer’, because he hid the corpses of his victims in trunks.
1962 G. Butler Coffin in Oxf. xiv. 176 Discovered your trunk murderer yet?
trunk-nail n. a short nail with broad convex brass head used for ornamenting trunks and coffins (Knight).
trunk-nose n. the sea-elephant or elephant-seal ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).
trunk road n. a main road; spec. in Grand (also Great) Trunk Road, the great highway between Calcutta (Kolkata) and Amritsar constructed during the British Raj.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road
great road1614
high road1620
main road1741
highway1837
traffic artery1845
trunk road1848
main-way1862
arterial road1886
primary roada1903
route1912
arterial1920
major road1930
spine road1961
1848 J. Bourne Let. 24 Apr. in Railways in India (ed. 2) 19 The grand trunk road, connecting Calcutta with the north west provinces..is already a railway all but the rails.
1851 Ret. Public Works India 146 in Parl. Papers XLI. 513 Documents..report the progress of the works on the Great Trunk Road.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. xiii. 233 Englebourn was situated on no trunk road.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 398 In India, on some of the trunk roads there are regular halting grounds.
1888 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1890) 19 All those hairy gentlemen..Swaggered down the Grand Trunk Road into Bow Bazar.
1890 R. S. Ferguson Hist. Cumberland x. 149 The trunk-road itself passes Waverton.
1931 J. W. Gregory Story of Road xviii. 274 In 1839 it was decided to construct a metalled road, the Grand Trunk Road, from Calcutta to Delhi... By 1849 about £300,000 had been spent on it.
1937 Archit. Rev. 81 155 The Trunk Roads Act comes into operation on April 1st.
1974 Listener 2 May 574/3 Bentinck's Governor-Generalship..was not a complete failure, as the Great Trunk Road shows.
trunk-rod n. a fishing-rod composed of short joints for convenience in packing (U.S.).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > rod > [noun] > types of rod
pole1577
telescope pole1675
fly-rod1684
dopper1688
whipper1688
bag-rod1787
telescope rod1820
salmon rod1841
greenheart1869
spinning-rod1870
loop-rod1885
roach pole1892
trunk-rod1893
sea-rod1902
1893 Outing 22 121/2 Trunk rods made to pack in small space often have six or seven [joints].
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > pack-saddle
trunk-saddle1569
bardelle1603
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > types of saddle
mail-saddle1360
trotter-saddle1381
panel1393
loadsaddle1397
packsaddle1398
limber-saddle1480
pillion1480
side-saddle1493
steel saddle1503
pilgate1511
mail pillowc1532
stock-saddle1537
pad1556
sunk1568
trunk-saddle1569
soda1586
mail pillion1586
running saddle1596
Scotch saddle1596
postilion saddle1621
pad-saddle1622
portmanteau-saddle1681
watering saddle1681
cart-saddle1692
demi-pique1695
crook-saddle1700
saddle pad1750
recado1825
aparejo1844
mountain saddle1849
somerset1851
pilch1863
cowboy saddle1880
sawbuck (pack)saddle1881
western saddle1883
cross-saddle1897
centre-fire1921
McClellan1940
poley1957
1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 219 In his owen stable..iiij hackney sadles..one trouncke sadle.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of
poke1402
foresleeve1538
long sleeve1538
lumbard1542
puller out1543
maunch1550
hand sleeve1585
French sleeve1592
poke sleeve1592
puff1601
trunk sleeve1603
stock-sleeve1611
hoop-sleeve1614
puff sleevec1632
short sleeve1639
hanging sleeve1659
engageants1690
jockey-sleeve1692
pudding-sleeve1704
Amadis1814
gigot1824
leg of mutton1824
bishop sleeve1829
mutton-leg sleeve1830
balloon sleeve1837
gigot-sleeve1837
bag-sleeve1844
pagoda sleeve1850
mameluke sleeve1853
angel sleeve1859
elbow-sleeve1875
sling-sleeve1888
sleevelet1889
pagoda1890
bell-sleeve1892
kimono sleeve1919–20
dolman1934
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 311 They make trunke-sleeves of wire and whale-bone bodies.
1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iv. F iij b A simple, country Ladie, wore gold buttons, trunck sleeues, and flaggon bracelets.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iii. 139 A loose bodied gowne..With a small compast cape..a trunke sleeue.
trunk slops n. (slop n.1 4.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > trunk breeches
trunks1582
galligaskin1592
trunk slops1592
bullion1594
trunk-hose1637
trunk-breeches1662
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. B3v A paire of trunke slops, sagging down like a Shoomakers wallet.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope
trunk1610
trunk-glass1613
trunk-spectacle1613
telescope1619
tube1651
field glass1782
look-see1925
1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies i. 1 The foure attenders vpon Iupiter, lately discouered by the trunke spectacle.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. iv. 79 Many [stars] haue lately beene discouered, by reason of the Trunk-spectacle lately found out.
trunk-staithe n. a wharf at which coal is loaded into vessels by a trunk or shoot.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > wharf or quay > types of
wood-wharf1279
jutty-head1559
coal wharf1655
coal staithe1708
jetty head1731
sufferance wharf1774
trunk-staithe1789
wharf-boat1849
sufferance quay1882
1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 256 (note) When the waggons are emptied into a keel or vessel by a spout, it is called a trunk staith.
trunk-stay n. = trunk-brace n. (Knight).
trunk-turtle n. the Leathery Turtle or Leather-back, Dermatochelys (Sphargis) coriacea, of warm seas, having a flexible leathery carapace with osseous deposits and several longitudinal ridges.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Dermochelidae > member of (leather-back)
sea-turtlec1612
trunk-turtle1697
leather-back1855
leathery turtle1875
luth1883
trunk-back1883
leather-turtle1884
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 103 There are 4 sorts of Sea-turtle, viz. the Trunk-turtle, the Loggerhead, the Hawksbill, and the Green Turtle.
1736 Dr. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 117 Testudo Arcuata: The Trunk-Turtle.
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 94 A trunk-turtle, a species of immense size and exceedingly fat.
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trunk-valve n. in a steam-engine, a D slide-valve long enough to cover direct steamports when placed near the end of the cylinder ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > fiddle
fiddlec1275
trunk-wame16..
crowda1627
bosh1876
16.. Poems, Ballads, etc. (Percy Soc.) 196 I pray who's this we've met with here, That tickles his trunk weam?.. If he'll play,..We'll dance you Jumping Joan.
trunk-way n. see quot.
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a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Trunk-way, a water course through an arch of masonry, turned over a ditch before a gate. The name arose no doubt, from the trunks of trees used for the same purpose in ancient and simpler times.
trunk-weed n. ? a species of seaweed.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > of unspecified or various types
sea-grass1591
rockweed1599
sea-tree1601
zoster1601
float-ore1602
vraic1610
sea-wrack1611
spangle-wort1681
trunk-weed1730
turtle-grass1736
sea-pine1762
agar-agar1769
greenweed1820
bull-kelpc1929
agarophyte1944
1730 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 5 May At 6 this morning Saw a bunch of Trunk Weeds.
trunk-work n. secret or clandestine action, as by means of a trunk.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [noun]
night workOE
stealth1297
surreptionc1400
stouth1513
creeping1565
trunk-worka1616
underdealing1649
stoldred1654
underwork1814
hole-and-cornerism1873
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 72 This has beene some staire-worke, some Trunke-worke, some behinde-doore worke. View more context for this quotation
1920 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 25 Sept. (1928) 46 I heard again from Methuen to-day. They now say they'd like 2 books for next spring. I think there must have been some trunk work, some back stair work in this on your part.
Derivatives
ˈtrunkie n. Scottish a little trunk (sense 7).
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling boxes
trussing coffera1387
lode-malea1400
gardeviance1459
trussing mail1485
trussing chest1540
trunk1609
portmanteau trunk1683
hair-trunk1693
mail-trunka1726
trunkie1728
trunk-mail1771
imperial1773
cedar chest1775
Noah's Ark1803
wardrobe trunk1815
dress case1819
yakdan1824
pitara1828
bullock-trunk1844
dress basket1857
Saratoga trunk1857
Saratoga1863
black jack1885
innovation trunk1912
1728 A. Ramsay Bob of Dunblane i Gang to the ground of ye'r trunkies, Busk ye braw.
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[Back-formation < trunking n.2 1c.] A long shift of driving a lorry along trunk roads; a spell of ‘trunking’. colloquial.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > by motor lorry > on long journeys or between cities
line haul1942
trunk1968
trunking1968
1968 P. G. Hollowell Lorry Driver vi. 155 [The driver's wife] didn't like the night trunk. I used to go away on Sunday night and not get back until Tuesday.
1989 Truck & Driver Feb. 37/1 Even with the horrendous road structure of the '50s, you could do this job in a week, provided one night of that week you did a trunk.
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† trunkv.1
Obsolete.
transitive. To cut a part off from; to cut short, truncate; to lop, clip, prune.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > make short(er) [verb (transitive)] > (as if) by cutting
crop?c1225
dockc1380
cutc1385
trunk?1440
coll1483
scut1530
to cut, trim, etc. short1545
prune1565
bobtail1577
curtail1580
lop1594
decurtate1599
imp1657
truncate1727
abridge1750
bob1822
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 86 Ek summe her aged vynes wole repare, And trunke hem of al hie abouen grounde.
a1550 in S. Baring-Gould & R. Twigge Armory Western Counties (1898) 4 A fesse trunked betweene 3 escalops sab.
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie ii. 38 His coate-armor rased, his Sheeld reuersed, his Speare truncked, his spurres hewed from his heeles.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Troncation, a truncation, trunking, mutilation, cutting off.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 274/1 Termes used by Tobacconists... Trunk it, is to make it in Order for the boxes.
c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. at Trunk When the tree is borne couped of all its branches, and separated from its roots, it is then termed trunked.
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trunkv.2
/trʌŋk/, U.S. /trəŋk/ 1. transitive. To shut up as in a trunk; to imprison. rare.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)]
beclosec1000
setc1100
steekc1175
prison?c1225
adightc1275
imprison1297
laya1325
keepc1330
presentc1380
locka1400
throwc1422
commise1480
clapc1530
shop1548
to lay up1565
incarcerate1575
embar1590
immure1598
hole1608
trunk1608
to keep (a person) darka1616
carceir1630
enjaila1631
pocket1631
bridewell1733
bastille1745
cage1805
quod1819
bag1824
carcerate1839
to send down1840
jug1841
slough1848
to send up1852
to put away1859
warehouse1881
roundhouse1889
smug1896
to bang up1950
1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) ii. sig. D I thought thou hadst bin cabyn'd in thy ship, Not Trunkt within my cruell gardyans house.
2. Mining. To dress (lead or tin ore) by agitating it in water; cf. trunk n. 9.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > dress ore
stamp1568
shadder1582
craze1610
tye1757
spall1758
toze1758
trunk1758
concentrate1771
to griddle out1778
jig1778
puddle1963
1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 204 What runs off to the hindermost part of the pit..and..is slimy..must be trunked, buddled, and tozed, as the slimy tin.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 238 In order to clear the earthy sordes from the slime or loobs, it may be trunked.
1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 579 In 1778 we find that the slime and tails, after having been allowed to dry, were trunked and framed.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 188 Trunking (Cornw.), separating slimes by means of a trunk.
3. To cover or enclose as with a casing; see quots.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > encase or sheathe > with tubular casing
trunk1838
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 383/2 The road-way is then to be floored or trunked over with five courses of dry heathy sods.
1883 Science II. 99/1 A ‘trunking’ or wooden covering is then placed over them to protect them from snow and the feet of any one walking about the yard.
4. Of an elephant: To pick up, pull, or pluck with the trunk.Apparently an isolated use.
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1901 Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 7 165/1 The elephants went past a garden with cabbages in it, and did not they trunk them up!
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5. To make (a minor road) into a trunk road; to upgrade and reclassify as a trunk road.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [verb (transitive)] > convert to specific type of road
dismain1886
main1927
trunk1954
dual1959
1954 Times 27 Mar. 7/7 You may be interested to know the verbs, to ‘trunk’ and to ‘de-trunk’, used in connexion with roads in Ministry of Transport circles.
1971 Country Life 29 July 282/4 There is a possibility that this road will be trunked and heavy lorries and tankers will thunder through the dale.
1972 Daily Tel. 8 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 7/2 The old A594 from Penrith, where the M6 runs, was trunked and rechristened A66.
1983 Times 11 Oct. 2/6 Metropolitan roads to be trunked.
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