Trunk

Quick meaning: Trunk is a noun meaning (heading, biology) Part of a body.

Meaning

(heading, biology) Part of a body.

More Meanings

1. (heading) A container.
2. (heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
3. The main line or body of anything.
4. (in the plural) Ellipsis of swimming trunks.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
6. (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

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

Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke.

Word Forms

• trunks
• trunking
• trunked

Synonyms for trunk

Depending on context, synonyms include body, boot, torso, proboscis, bole.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bole, proboscis, torso, boot, body, log.

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