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.

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#*: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).

Noun

(en noun)

A passage; a way through.

* 1961 , (Frederic Morton), The Rothschilds , p. 173:

“I ask you,” cried Lloyd George in 1909. “Are we to have all the ways of reform, financial and social, blocked simply by a notice board: ‘No thoroughfare . By order of Nathanial Rothschild’?”

* 1974 , , Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy :

In the scullery Smiley had once more checked his thoroughfare , shoved some deck-chairs aside, and pinned a string to the mangle to guide him because he saw badly in the dark.

A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.

* 1841 , (Charles Dickens), Barnaby Rudge :

a dozen houses were quickly blazing, including those of Sir John Fielding and two other justices, and four in Holborn – one of the greatest thoroughfares in London – which were all burning at the same time, and burned until they went out of themselves, for the people cut the engine hose, and would not suffer the firemen to play upon the flames.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}

* 2011 , Stephen Phelan, The Guardian , 1 Jul 2011:

Local art is now a viable industry, and hundreds of islanders make a living in it. The thoroughfare of Oneroa village is lined with shops and galleries full of their work.

(obsolete) The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.

* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book X:

and made one realm, / Hell and this world, one realm, one continent / Of easy thorough-fare .

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An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.