trunk
/tɹʌŋk/ verb C2- To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
- To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
He/she/it trunks · Past trunked · Past participle trunked · -ing form trunking
Verb forms
- Base form
- trunk
- He/she/it
- trunks
- Past
- trunked
- Past participle
- trunked
- -ing form
- trunking
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Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
It is a most tremendous monster, like a great spider, with a body as big as an elephant and legs as long as a tree trunk.
He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk.
A WILD BOAR stood under a tree and rubbed his tusks against the trunk.
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