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
- (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.
Word Forms
- trunk-makers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include trunkmaker, malletier, boxmaker, framer, lumberjack, truckmaker.
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