Day 1335
13 Feb 2025

trunk

/tɹʌŋk/

noun
(heading, biological) Part of a body.(heading) A container.(heading) A channel for flow of some kind.In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.The main line or body of anything.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.Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).

verb
To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.