Trunk may refer to:
In biology:
- Trunk, the proboscis of an elephant
- Synonym for torso
- Trunk (botany), a tree's central superstructure
- Nerve trunk
Containers:
- Trunk (automobile), a large storage compartment
- Trunk (luggage)
- Trunk (motorcycle), a storage compartment
Other uses:
- Trunk (software), in revision control
- Trunk (structural), a chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
- Trunk line, in telecommunications
- Trunk shot, auto-trunk camera work
- Trunk Records, a record label
- Trunk road
Famous quotes containing the word trunk:
“That trunk of humors, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that
swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that
stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with
the pudding in his belly.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“through the Sumner Tunnel,
trunk by trunk through its sulphurous walls,
tile by tile like a men’s urinal,
slipping through
like somebody else’s package.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)