trunked

English

Etymology

trunk + -ed

Adjective

trunked (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) Having some specific type of trunk.
    large-trunked trees
    a picture of a two-trunked elephant
  2. (obsolete) Cut off, severed; mutilated.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:
      from the head the body sundred quight. / So him dismounted low, he did compell / On foot with him to matchen equall fight; / The truncked beast fast bleeding, did him fowly dight.

Verb

trunked

  1. simple past tense and past participle of trunk

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