trunk

noun

1. Part of a body.
2. Part of a body.
3. Part of a body.
4. A container.

   “There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.”

5. A container.

   “To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks”

6. (Canada, US)A container.

   “I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.”

7. A container.
8. (US)A channel for flow of some kind.
9. A channel for flow of some kind.
10. A channel for flow of some kind.
11. (archaic)A channel for flow of some kind.

    “He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk.”

12. A channel for flow of some kind.
13. In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
14. The main line or body of anything.

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

15. The main line or body of anything.
16. The main line or body of anything.
17. 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.
18. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, in-plural)Ellipsis of swimming trunks.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.

   “Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke.”

2. (transitive)To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
3. To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.

name

1. A surname from German.