Definition of trunk

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Trunk (n.) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

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Acrolith :: Acrolith (n.) A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood..
Trunk :: Trunk (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, grain to an elevator, etc..
Manitrunk :: Manitrunk (n.) The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect.
Stipe :: Stipe (n.) The trunk of a tree.
Tremex :: Tremex (n.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail..
Truncal :: Truncal (a.) Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body..
Moss :: Moss (n.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water..
Trunk :: Trunk (v. t.) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9..
Trunkback :: Trunkback (n.) The leatherback.
Truncus :: Truncus (n.) The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5..
Tamarind :: Tamarind (n.) A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated..
Untrunked :: Untrunked (a.) Separated from its trunk or stock.
Repack :: Repack (v. t.) To pack a second time or anew; as, to repack beef; to repack a trunk..
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The proboscis of an elephant.
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches..
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath..
Ostracion :: Ostracion (n.) A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes..
Paddlewood :: Paddlewood (n.) The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks..
Trunked :: Trunked (a.) Having (such) a trunk.
Stump :: Stump (n.) The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
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