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Trunk

noun

The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber. Synonyms: bole, tree trunk.

Luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage.

The body excluding the head and neck and limbs. Synonyms: body, torso.

Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools. Synonyms: automobile trunk, luggage compartment.

A long flexible snout as of an elephant. Synonym: proboscis.

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"Trunk" Quotes from Famous Books

... on shore, and giving his trunk to a porter, desired him to lead the way to Bread Street, in which his uncle resided; for in the last century, such things as country villas were almost unknown, and the merchants of London for the most part resided ...

— With Clive in India - Or, The Beginnings of an Empire • G. A. Henty

... a link of galley-slaves, by a light chain, which passes from them to Jupiter's great toe: and yet, in receiving or delivering a message, they may never approach above the lowest step of his throne, where he and they whisper to each other through a large hollow trunk. These deities are called by mortal men accidents or events; but the gods call them second causes. Jupiter having delivered his message to a certain number of these divinities, they flew immediately down to the pinnacle of the regal library, and consulting ...

— The Battle of the Books - and Other Short Pieces • Jonathan Swift

... pulse of the Anarchist movement, near the corner of Loomis and Forty-ninth Streets. Taking up my stand in the deep entry of a "House to Let," I watched the operations of a body of strikers gathered round a box car close to the Grand Trunk crossing. They had set it afire, and were trying to overturn it upon the railway track, encouraged by the cheers of a mob numbering about two thousand ...

— The Making of Mary • Jean Forsyth

... soon became as regular as that of a well-ordered household. The weather-beaten old tree was in the center; our rifles generally rested against its vast trunk, and our saddles were flung on the ground around it; its distorted roots were so twisted as to form one or two convenient arm-chairs, where we could sit in the shade and read or smoke; but meal-times became, on the whole, the most interesting hours of the day, and a bountiful ...

— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... the door of the parsonage and came forth. Leaning against the trunk of an old tree but a little distance from them, I saw and heard the parting acts of endearment. At that terrible moment the determination of my soul was made, and I heard the dark devil within me whisper one of you must die. I shuddered at the thought, but when scarcely ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various

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