Trunk

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TRUNK, sb.1 and v. Var. dial. uses in Eng. [truŋk,
trɐŋk.] 1. sb. In comp. Trunk-wame, fig. a fiddle, lit.
a box-belly.
w.Yks. Who's this That tickles his trunk wame? Dixon Sngs.
Peas. (1857) 174.

2. A box in which fish are sent to the market.
n.Lin. (E.S.) Nrf. Jest stole a trunk o' eels and got six months
for thet, Emerson Wild Life (1890) 103.

3. A rough chest, pierced with holes, in which live fish
are submerged in the water when not wanted immediately
for market. s.Wor.1, Glo.1, e.An.1 4. A small hoop-net
or ‘pot’ used to catch lobsters and crabs; see below.
N.Cy.1 Nhb.1 Each net is about a foot deep, and its mouth is
kept extended by a hoop or ring of the same diameter. The ring
is hung horizontally and the net is suspended just clear of the
ground. A piece of fish, gen. a piece of sand-dab, is placed in the
net as bait. n.Yks.1; n.Yks.2 Trunk-shaped framings of wandwork
covered with netting, having sufficient ingress for the
captured, but no return. Baited inside, they are sunk in the sea
with lines and weights. e.Yks. (T.H.)

5. A wooden pipe or tube, gen. square, used to convey
water from the eaves-gutters, or to convey the grain or
flour to or from a corn-mill. w.Som.1 6. Obs. A coal-spout
at a shipping-place. Also in comp. Trunk-staith.
Nhb.1 In former times a coal-staith was called a ‘dyke,’ or ‘trunk’
if a shoot or spout was used, and a ‘drop’ if the waggon was
lowered and discharged over the ship's deck. ‘When the
waggons are emptied into a keel or vessel by a spout, it is called
a trunk-staith,’ Brand Hist. Newc. (1789) II. 256, n.

7. Obs. pl. Pipes made to convey air into mines.
Der. Manlove Lead Mines (1653) Gl.; Wooden spouts to convey
wind or water, Mawe Mineralogy (1802) Gl.

8. The part of a water-wheel which contains and
regulates the supply of the water. w.Som.1 9. A long,
narrow trough in which tin or lead ore is dressed;
mining implement.
Der. Vessels into which are placed smytham, sludge, and slime.
The trunks are agitated with water, and thereby the metals
separated from the base minerals, Manlove Lead Mines (1653) Gl.
Cor.1 Cor.2

10. A bucket used in sinking a shaft in mining.
w.Yks. They descended the shaft at six o'clock this morning,
and had filled several ‘trunks,’ or buckets, with stone, Yks. Even.
Post (Mar. 24, 1899).
11. A rude kind of bridge.
Dor. Crossing a rude kind of bridge ─ a tree thrown from bank
to bank of the river ─ which was always called the ‘trunk,’ Hare
Dinah Kellow (1901) 249.
12. An arched drain under a road; a culvert; a pipe or
watercourse through an arch of masonry, &c. Also in comp.
Trunk-way.
ne.Lan.1 The wooden conduit or sluice used for the mouth of
drains into the sea, to prevent the tide running up the drain.
Chs.1, e.An.1, Ken. (P.M.) e.Sus. Holloway. Hmp.1
13. pl. A game; see below.
Nhp.1 A game played with a long piece of wood or bridge with
nine arches cut in it, each arch being marked with a figure over
it, from one to nine... Each player has two flattened balls which
he aims to bowl edge-ways under the arches (s.v. Nine-holes).
14. v. To catch lobsters and crabs in a ‘trunk’ or pot. Gen.
in prp. n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 n.Yks.4, e.Yks. (T.H.), Nrf.1 Hence Trunker, sb.
a crab or lobster-catcher. n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 15. To dress or separate
base metal from the good in lead and tin mining.
Der. Manlove Lead Mines (1653). Cor. His work was ‘trunking’
─ that is to say, this innocent had to stir up the metalliferous
slime with a shovel ─ and his wage was twopence per diem,
Hammond Parish (1897) 46; Cor.1 Cor.2
16. To under-drain land. Ken. (P.M.), Sus.1 Sus.2 e.Sus.
Holloway. Hmp.1 Hence Trunking-tools, sb. pl. tools
used in draining. Sus. Morton Cyclo. Agric. (1863).