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Trone vs Tronk - What's the difference?

trone | tronk |

As a verb trone

is .

As a noun tronk is

(south africa) a prison.

trone

English

Etymology 1

Compare (etyl) trogne a belly.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small drain.

    • Etymology 2

    (lena) trona, from (etyl) (lena) trutina a balance.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A steelyard.
  • (UK, dialect, Scotland, obsolete) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar.
    • (Jamieson)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    tronk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa) A prison.
  • * 1824 , William John Burchell, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa
    • It must here be explained that the tronk , or jail, is the general receptacle, not only of convicted criminals, but of such Hottentots or slaves as are found, improperly or illegally wandering about the country...
  • * 1958 , Isobel Rae, The strange story of Dr James Barry
    • The diary of another settler, who had been wrongfully imprisoned in the Tronk , and described the daily life there in no uncertain terms...
  • * 1985 , Lawrence George Green, Maureen Barnes, The best of Lawrence Green
    • It was built, as far as I can discover, because the Cape Argus rightly denounced the overcrowding of the old "tronk" on the waterfront.