Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a trunk, in any sense: generally used in compounds.
- In heraldry: Having a trunk: used only when the trunk is of a different tincture from the rest of the bearing: as, a tree vert trunked azure.
- Couped of all its branches and roots—that is, having them cut short so as to show only stumps.
- Same as
caboshed . - Truncated; beheaded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having (such) a trunk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective in combination Having some
specific type oftrunk - adjective obsolete
Cut-off ,severed ;mutilated .
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Examples
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"Now, Clarence," said his papa, "I suppose you would say that the elephant 'trunked' the toll-gate, and so he did; but, you see, it was because he did not choose to be imposed upon."
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To receive them you need a newer scanner like my Uniden BCD 396 (below) which decodes digital and also tracks the changing frequencies of many "trunked" radio systems.
Gear Diary 2009
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Here all was noise and movement, the lofty, slender trunked trees swaying back and forth in the wind and clashing their branches together.
Chapter XIX 2010
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He saw, an opening between huge-trunked trees, and advanced through it, putting out the light and treading on dry footing as yet protected from the drip of the fog by the dense foliage overhead.
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Eighty feet in length, rising two stories and a half from masonry walls to tree-trunked roof, flung across with a flying gallery from the rail of which hung skins of wild animals, hand-woven blankets of Oaxaca and Ecuador, and tapas, woman-pounded and vegetable-dyed, from the islands of the South
CHAPTER XI 2010
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They cleared the crest and emerged from the pool as if into another world, for now they were in the thicket of velvet-trunked young madronos and looking down the open, sun-washed hillside, across the nodding grasses, to the drifts of blue and white nemophilae that carpeted the tiny meadow on either side the tiny stream.
Chapter XXIV 2010
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Instead of the twisted hillside oaks, tall straight trees, big-trunked and prosperous, rose from the damp fat soil.
War 2010
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She watched the sun flickering down through the warm-trunked redwoods.
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And huge, golden melons of the papaia, ready for the eating, globuled directly from the slender-trunked trees not one-tenth the girth of the fruits they bore.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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The tall, delicate-trunked trees twisted and snapped about like whip-lashes.
Chapter 3 2010
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