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Etymology

From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.

derived from truncus — “a stock, lopped tree trunk”
derived from tronc — “alms box, tree trunk, headless body”
inherited from tronke

Definitions

Part of a body.
2
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.
A channel for flow of some kind.
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1. In software projects under source control
  In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
2. 5
  The main line or body of anything.
  - the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches
3. A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow…
  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.
4. Ellipsis of swimming trunks.
5. 8
  To lop off
  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.
6. To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
7. To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits,…
  To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
8. A surname from German.

The neighborhood

Derived

brachiocephalic trunk, celiac trunk, costocervical trunk, digit trunk, elephant's trunk, elephant trunk, floppy trunk syndrome, hand trunk, jugular trunk, junk in one's trunk, junk in the trunk, nerve trunk, pulmonary trunk, steamer trunk, subscriber trunk dialling, sympathetic trunk, the apple does not fall far from the trunk, thyrocervical trunk, tree trunk, trunk breeches, trunk briefs, trunk call, Trunk Cay, trunkless, trunklid, trunk-like, trunklike, trunk line, trunk-maker, trunk novel, trunk or treat, trunk piston, trunk road, trunk show, trunk sleeve, trunky

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at trunk. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at trunk. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at trunk

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.