trunk

trunk is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
2. noun. The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
3. noun. The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
4. noun. That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. The proboscis of an elephant.
7. noun. The proboscis of an insect.
8. noun. A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
9. noun. 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.
10. noun. A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
11. noun. 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.
12. noun. 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.
13. transitive verb. To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
14. transitive verb. To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
15. noun. a long flexible snout as of an elephant

    Synonyms: proboscis

16. noun. compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools

    "he put his golf bag in the trunk"

17. noun. luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage
18. noun. the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

    "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"

    Synonyms: body, torso

19. noun. the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber

    Synonyms: bole

Synonyms

proboscis, body, torso, bole

Common word forms

trunks, trunked, trunkful, trunking, trunkless

Words from these letters

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