| trunk | |
| 1. n. (heading, biological) Part of a body. | |
| 2. n. The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk. | |
| 3. n. The torso. | |
| 4. n. The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of ani | |
| 5. n. A container.: | |
| 6. n. A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at eac | |
| 7. n. A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or othe | |
| 8. n. (US, Canada automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot | |
| 9. n. A channel for flow of some kind.: | |
| 10. n. (US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment. | |
| 11. n. A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks. | |
| 12. n. A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill | |
| 13. n. (archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter | |
| 14. n. (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained. | |
| 15. n. (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. | |
| 16. n. The main line or body of anything. | |
| the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches | |
| 17. n. (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system. | |
| 18. n. (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column. | |
| 19. n. 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 | |
| 20. n. Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks). | |
| 21. v. (obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate. | |
| 22. v. (mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. | |
