Trunk(n.)
- A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
Trunk(n.)
- 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.
Trunk(n.)
- A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
Trunk(n.)
- 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.
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.
Trunk(v. t.)
- To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
Trunk(v. t.)
- To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.