ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Trunk-maker

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Trunk-maker is a noun meaning A person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks).

Meaning

A person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks).

More Meanings

  1. (theater, obsolete) A critic who pounds upon the benches in a show of approval.

Example Sentences

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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Related dictionary entries include trunkmaker, malletier, boxmaker, framer, lumberjack, truckmaker.

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