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- noun Plural form of
treetrunk .
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Examples
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The fire and the carousing were now quite a distance behind me among the treetrunks, no more than a bar or two of golden light, crossed with cavorting dancers, lengthened and shortened by the swaying of storytellers.
Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010
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By the time we hit the approach to the Verrazano bridge I was part of an elite group of five comprised of a 74 year-old man on a Colnago, a middle-aged substitute teacher from Minnesota with a pinwheel taped to her handlebars, a guy on a recumbent trike, a real gear-masher with treetrunks for thighs towing a tandem kiddie trailer off the back of a hybrid, and of course me.
Dominating the Unwitting: Winning the Five Boro Bike Tour BikeSnobNYC 2008
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I'm sure the "real gear-masher with treetrunks for thighs towing a tandem kiddie trailer off the back of a hybrid" would have crushed him if he didn't have his Aerospoke wheels.
Dominating the Unwitting: Winning the Five Boro Bike Tour BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Marking the crossroads was a small scattering of rocks and some dead treetrunks.
Eye of the Storm V.C. Andrews 2001
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Marking the crossroads was a small scattering of rocks and some dead treetrunks.
Eye of the Storm V.C. Andrews 2001
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The thick hemp nets were braced with huge round timbers " rough-smoothed treetrunks " and extended over a rocky escarpment overlooking a road.
The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998
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The explosion blasted a hole in the ground and sent shrapnel into the surrounding treetrunks, but of course, it didn't hurt Mentia.
Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995
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Over this was laid heavy PVC sheeting to make it waterproof, then a second grating of treetrunks went over this to form a gigantic sandwich.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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Floating near by, keeping pace with him in the flotsam of debris from the dam, was one of the treetrunks that had formed part of the raft with which Sapper had plugged the gap in the wall.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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The explosion blasted a hole in the ground and sent shrapnel into the surrounding treetrunks, but of course, it didn't hurt Mentia.
Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995
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