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  • English Word Trundle Definition To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.
  • English Word Trundle Definition To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.
  • English Word Trundle-bed Definition A low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also, sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels.
  • English Word Trundled Definition of Trundle
  • English Word Trundlehead Definition One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.
  • English Word Trundlehead Definition The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.
  • English Word Trundletail Definition A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail.
  • English Word Trundling Definition of Trundle
  • English Word Trunk Definition The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
  • English Word Trunk Definition The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
  • English Word Trunk Definition The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
  • English Word Trunk Definition That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
  • English Word Trunk Definition That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.
  • English Word Trunk Definition The proboscis of an elephant.
  • English Word Trunk Definition The proboscis of an insect.
  • English Word Trunk Definition A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
  • English Word Trunk Definition 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.
  • English Word Trunk Definition A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
  • English Word Trunk Definition 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.
  • English Word Trunk Definition 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.
  • English Word Trunk Definition To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
  • English Word Trunk Definition To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
  • English Word Trunkback Definition The leatherback.
  • English Word Trunked Definition Having (such) a trunk.
  • English Word Trunkfish Definition Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.
  • English Word Trunkful Definition As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
  • English Word Trunkfuls Definition of Trunkful
  • English Word Trunkwork Definition Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.
  • English Word Trunnel Definition A trundle.
  • English Word Trunnel Definition See Treenail.