Word Meanings - TRUNKFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.

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• TRUNKED
  Having a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.
• TRUNKFUL
  As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
• TRUNK PISTON
  In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
• ENOUGH
  Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin
• TRUNKBACK
  The leatherback.
• TRUNK STEAMER
  A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
• TRUNKWORK
  Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.
• TRUNK
  That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column. (more info) perhaps akin to torquere to twist wrench, and E. torture. Trunk in the sense of proboscis is fr. F. trompe (the same word as
• TRUNKFISH
  Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidæ, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish,
• TRUNK ENGINE
  An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines.
• UNTRUNKED
  Separated from its trunk or stock.
• MANITRUNK
  The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect.
• ALITRUNK
  The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby.
• INTRUNK
  To inclose as in a trunk; to incase. Ford.