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TRUNKS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee
Synonyms:
short pants; shorts; trunks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("trunks" is a kind of...):
pair of trousers; pant; trousers ((usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trunks"):
Bermuda shorts; Jamaica shorts ((used in the plural) short pants that end at the knee)
hot pants (skin-tight very short pants worn by young women as an outer garment)
lederhosen (leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria)
Context examples:
A pearl necklace I had given you lay untouched in its little casket; your trunks were left corded and locked as they had been prepared for the bridal tour.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Trees such as the giant sequoia can only achieve their vast heights because of these secondary cell walls, which provide a rigid structure around the cells in their trunks.
(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)
With a boy’s curiosity I have peeped through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such a room.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have had all my own little concerns to arrange, books and music to divide, and all my trunks to repack, from not having understood in time what was intended as to the waggons: and one thing I have had to do, Mary, of a more trying nature: going to almost every house in the parish, as a sort of take-leave.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He would thrust his nose into the cool wood moss, or into the black soil where long grasses grew, and snort with joy at the fat earth smells; or he would crouch for hours, as if in concealment, behind fungus-covered trunks of fallen trees, wide-eyed and wide-eared to all that moved and sounded about him.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The buried were placed in the middle of the cave and a variety of elements were used during the rituals, such as plant materials (branches and trunks), ceramic vessels that must have played an important role given the degree of fragmentation they exhibit, iron oxide ores (‘ochre’).
(Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, University of Granada)
From where we lay we could look down a brown aisle, arched with green, formed by the trunks and branches.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Chopping down young saplings, he made them cross-bars of a scaffold by lashing them high up to the trunks of standing trees.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The track which guided him was one so seldom used that in places it lost itself entirely among the grass, to reappear as a reddish rut between the distant tree trunks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage—a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
