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Vinony

trunk

noun

  1. main wooden axis of a tree
  2. rear luggage compartment in an automobile
  3. luggage item used for storing clothes and personal possessions, often when travelling or going to live in a new place
  4. muscular appendage of elephants and their relatives
  5. main branch (version) of a file tree under revision control
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /tɹʌŋk/ / [t͡ʃɹʌŋk] / [tɹʌŋk]

name

Etymology: Borrowed from German Trunk, also a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.

  1. A surname from German.

noun

Etymology: 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.

  1. Part of a body.
  2. Part of a body.
  3. Part of a body.
  4. A container.

    “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.”

  5. A container.

    “To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks”

  6. A container.

    “I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.”

  7. A container.
  8. A channel for flow of some kind.
  9. A channel for flow of some kind.
  10. A channel for flow of some kind.
  11. A channel for flow of some kind.

    “He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk.”

  12. A channel for flow of some kind.
  13. In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
  14. The main line or body of anything.

    “the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches”

  15. The main line or body of anything.
  16. The main line or body of anything.
  17. 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.
  18. Ellipsis of swimming trunks.

verb

Etymology: 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.

  1. To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

    “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.
  3. To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.