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Trunks

noun

1.

Trousers that end at or above the knee. Synonyms: short pants, shorts.

Trunk

noun

1.

The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber. Synonyms: bole, tree trunk.

2.

Luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage.

3.

The body excluding the head and neck and limbs. Synonyms: body, torso.

4.

Compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools. Synonyms: automobile trunk, luggage compartment.

5.

A long flexible snout as of an elephant. Synonym: proboscis.

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"Trunks" Quotes from Famous Books

... between the seasons, Isak smooths down some new tree-trunks he has thrown; to be used for something or other, no doubt. Also he digs out a number of useful stones and gets them down to the house; as soon as there are stones enough, he builds a wall of them. A year or so back, Inger ...

— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun

... Sally, or smoke a monogrammed cigarette. Why, my child, that little polish, that little fineness, is the woman's gift to her man! These Frosts and Parkers: it was the coarse strength of their grandfathers that got them across the plains; it was the women who packed the books in the horsehair trunks, that read the Bibles and cleaned and sewed and prayed in the old home way. You don't suppose those old miners and grocers, who came later to be the city fathers, ever had as much education as Joe Hawkes, ...

— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris

... is quite dreadful," Mrs. Ebley sniffed, "and I hear from Martha that he has no less than two valets, and a suite of princely rooms and motor cars, and the whole passage on the second floor is filled with his trunks." ...

— The Point of View • Elinor Glyn

... was upon the crowded thoroughfare beyond. But like her husband, she was gazing through and beyond. She was watching the tongues of flame as they licked up the resinous trunks and foliage of a ...

— The Forfeit • Ridgwell Cullum

... in which they were seated, through which the little brook foamed and tumbled, was surrounded by magnificent old oaks, some with hollow trunks, others with branches gnarled and twisted in a thousand fantastic shapes, some yet retained a portion of their leaves—brown and sere, one or two were enveloped with ivy, and here and there the mistletoe could be seen, thick and verdant. It was a spot the Druids must have delighted ...

— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake

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