Noun

(en noun)

The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout .

The front of the prow of a ship or boat.

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, title= The Three Corpse Trick, section=chapter 5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout , and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}

(derogatory) A person's nose.

His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout .

(Hudibras)

The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.

The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.

The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.

(British, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.

* 1967 , Len Deighton, Only When I Laugh

(Bob, p. 55:) Charlie was the most vicious screw on the block ... He caught me with the two ounces of snout right in my hand, caught me by the hair, and swung me round in the exercise yard ...

(Spider, p. 175:) She brings me snout and sweets, and sometimes a cake from Mum.

* 1982 , Edward Bond, Saved

LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout . / MIKE. Five or ten?

* 2000 , Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank, We Think the World of You

Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout ." I said I would provide cigarettes.

* 2004 , Allan Sillitoe, New and Collected Stories

Raymond rolled a neat cigarette. "What about some snout , then?" "No, thanks." He laughed. Smoke drifted from his open mouth.

Terminus of a glacier.

Noun

(en noun)

Part of a body.

#The (usually single) upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.

#The torso.

#The extended and articulated nose or nasal organ of an elephant.

#The proboscis of an insect.

(lb) A container.

#A large suitcase, usually requiring two persons to lift and with a hinged lid.

#*

#*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks , swarm in the corridors.

#A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.

#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

#*:locked up in chests and trunks

# The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.

(lb) A channel for flow of some kind.

# A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.

#A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.

#A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.

#(lb) A long tube through which pellets of clay, pas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.

#*(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)

#*:He shot sugarplums at them out of a trunk .

#(lb) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.

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.

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#(lb) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.

#(lb) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

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).