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- English Word Trunk Definition To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
- English Word Trunk Definition To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
- English Word Trunkback Definition The leatherback.
- English Word Trunked Definition Having (such) a trunk.
- English Word Trunkfish Definition Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.
- English Word Trunkful Definition As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
- English Word Trunkfuls Definition of Trunkful
- English Word Trunkwork Definition Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.
- English Word Trunnel Definition A trundle.
- English Word Trunnel Definition See Treenail.
- English Word Trunnion Definition A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.
- English Word Trunnion Definition A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam.
- English Word Trunnioned Definition Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.
- English Word Trusion Definition The act of pushing or thrusting.
- English Word Truss Definition A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.
- English Word Truss Definition A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- English Word Truss Definition A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.
- English Word Truss Definition A tuft of flowers formed at the top of the main stalk, or stem, of certain plants.
- English Word Truss Definition The rope or iron used to keep the center of a yard to the mast.
- English Word Truss Definition An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.