Definition of Trunk

Trunk

The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.

The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.

The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.

That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.

The proboscis of an elephant.

The proboscis of an insect.

A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.

A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.

A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

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.

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.

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.

To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.

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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
Aeschylus

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
Orlando Bloom

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
Pope Paul VI

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
Marguerite Young

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.
Neil Jordan

I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.
Kristen Bell

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.
Henry Villard