Word Finder - trunk

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(heading, biological) Part of a body.

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(heading) A container.

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(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.

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In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.

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The main line or body of anything.

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the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches

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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.

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Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).

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To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

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

The black car sat outside the building with its trunk open.

She sat on a trunk at the end of one bed.

We piled it in the trunk and backseat.

We had these two big-ass suitcases in the trunk of the Caddy and we was to go down this highway 'til someone phoned us and told us what to do.

She circled the tree, placing rocks around its trunk as she went.

Instead of a trunk for his clothing, he carried a pair of saddlebags.

Camping equipment filled the trunk along with enough clothes to last a week.

He slammed her into the trunk, and she gasped, unable to move.

Jade ignored her and crossed to a trunk in the corner.

As soon as Dean mentioned the luggage and briefcase locked in the trunk of the car, Fred insisted on protecting this valuable evidence by bringing them in—just for safekeeping.

The trunk is shown too short.

She was lifting the suitcase into the trunk when the second pain hit.

A second time it tried to carry its load up the rough trunk of the tree, and a second time it failed.

One afternoon I amused myself by watching a barred owl (Strix nebulosa) sitting on one of the lower dead limbs of a white pine, close to the trunk, in broad daylight, I standing within a rod of him.

When we get there, we open up the trunk and drop these two suit­cases back by the building, just like they told us.

So what was the patch kit doing in the trunk of his company car?

Stowed in the trunk?

I presume that's just what Mrs. Worthington's sister thought when she opened her trunk.

Alex helped the man get the luggage into the trunk and then hurried to assist Carmen into the car before the man could touch her.

He picked her up and replaced her in the trunk, and then locked it.

Her suitcase was on the trunk.

She tucked it at her waist and rose, closing the trunk.

She whirled to face him, moving too slow to hide the suitcase laid out on the trunk at the end of the bed in which Toby slept.

He positioned his hands on the trunk.

The mock bones had been in storage for a couple of years—since the theater group went bust—in an unmarked trunk.

It stopped, and two footmen went to the doors while two others opened the trunk.

Climbing up the trunk, she found a smooth spot and sat down.

On the spur of the moment you pick up the suitcases, put them in your trunk, and drive off.

He probably had his suitcase and stuff in the trunk.

Did you plan on leaving the real bones in the trunk?

He moved to sit on the trunk at the end of the bed, close enough to see the details of her features without being too tempted to take her in his arms.

It twisted its odd little face to look at her and sniffed at her arm with its small trunk.

I felt such a strong urge to dress up in this, like a little girl trying to be someone she isn't—fishing in an attic trunk.

The angel looked up at him doubtfully then picked his way across roots to the pocket in the tree trunk.  Rhyn scavenged for what dry wood he could find and took the armful back to the tree.  Toby was huddled in the small cave, shaking with cold.

Hunter took out a set of keys and unlocked the doors and trunk.

He buys the bike in Scranton or someplace up north and stashes it in the trunk of his company car, dropping the tire patch kit.

I was the one who spotted the suitcases while Byrne was around the corner doing his business so I pitched them in his trunk without opening them.

I'd forgotten all about the bags I put in his trunk.

You lost your tire repair kit in the trunk.

Had it not been for the fact that the tree was almost completely severed from its trunk and had so much pressure on it from the opposite side, it would probably have been an impossible feat.

She shrugged and unlocked the trunk.

Robur than any other species, forming a thick trunk with spreading base and, when growing in glades or other open places, huge spreading boughs, less twisted and gnarled than those of the English oak, and covered with a whitish bark that gives a marked character to the tree.

This tree acquires large dimensions, the trunk being often from 4 to 6 ft.

There it was hanged on a gallows, and in the evening taken down, when the head was cut off and set up upon Westminster Hall, where it remained till as late as 1684, the trunk being thrown into a pit underneath the gallows.

The trunk is relatively small, with few slender ribs and a keeled breastbone (sternum).

I felt such a strong urge to dress up in this, like a little girl trying to be someone she isn't—fishing in an attic trunk.

She helped me unpack my trunk when it came, and was delighted when she found the doll the little girls sent her.

She had a trunk and clothes for Nancy, and her comment was, "Now Nancy will go to party."

Farther back beyond the dark trees a roof glittered with dew, to the right was a leafy tree with brilliantly white trunk and branches, and above it shone the moon, nearly at its full, in a pale, almost starless, spring sky.

A dirty, barefooted maid was sitting on a trunk, and, having undone her pale-colored plait, was pulling it straight and sniffing at her singed hair.