trunk

Part of a body.; The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.

Part of a body.; The torso; especially, the human torso.

Part of a body.; 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 animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for man

A container.; A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.

• There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.

A container.; 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 other goods.

• To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks

A container.; The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.CanadaUS

• I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.

A container.; A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.

A channel for flow of some kind.; A major circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.US

A channel for flow of some kind.; A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

A channel for flow of some kind.; 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.obsoletetransitive

• Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke.

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

To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.