trunk : Idioms & Phrases

• a pipe or shaft for conducting foul or heated air from a room.

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• noun a bundle of modified heart muscle that transmits the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles causing them to contract
  truncus atrioventricularis; bundle of His; atrioventricular bundle.
  

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• noun compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools
  luggage compartment; trunk.
  
  • he put his golf bag in the trunk

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• noun swimsuit worn by men while swimming
  bathing trunks.
  

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• noun an artery that originates from the abdominal aorta just below the diaphragm and branches into the left gastric artery and the common hepatic artery and the splenic artery
  arteria celiaca; celiac artery; truncus celiacus.
  

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• noun the artery that carries venous blood from the right ventricle of the heart and divides into the right and left pulmonary arteries
  truncus pulmonalis.
  

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• noun swimsuit worn by men while swimming
  bathing trunks.
  

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• noun the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
  bole; trunk.
  

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• noun a telephone call made outside the local calling area
  long distance; long-distance call.
  
  • I talked to her by long distance

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• a marine engine, the piston rod of which is a trunk. See Trunk, 10.

Webster 1913

• noun puffed breeches of the 16th and 17th centuries usually worn over hose
  

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• large breeches formerly worn, reaching to the knees.

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• noun hinged lid for a trunk
  

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• noun line that is the main route on a railway
  trunk line.
  
• noun a telephone line connecting two exchanges directly
  

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• the main line of a railway, canal, or route of conveyance.

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• noun a highway
  highroad.
  

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• noun line that is the main route on a railway
  trunk line.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the leatherback.

Webster 1913