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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1567-1690
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Trunk, Tronk, n. Also: trunck(e, trunke, tronke, tronc. [Late ME and e.m.E. trunke (c1440), tronke (1450-1), tronk (1486), trunk (1494), truncke (1546), OF tronc, L. truncum.]
1. A chest, a trunk, used for general storage, travelling, etc.(a) 1567 Anderson Collect. Mary II 180.
The powder that was in baith the tronk and the mail was caryit to the kingis house in polks 1568 6th Rep. Hist. MSS App. 658/1.
Mending ane of the charet sadillis … and nailling to bracis to bair the tronke 1571 Misc. Bann. C. III 140.
Testimonialis in a box of whyit yerne … all uther generall letters in a tronk 1619 Edinburgh Testaments L 182b.
Ane timber tronk 1640 Bk. Carlaverock II 504.
Twa greit tronkis full off Holland scheittis and pillobiers and dornik and damask tabil clothes 1641 Household Bk. M. Stewart 49.
Payit for carying ane tronc with robes from my lord off Wintones to my ladies ludging, 2 sh. 6 d. 1651 Black Bk. Taymouth 434.
To desire that yow wold send … a naige and creiles on him … to cary the said litle tronk to your house(b) 1596 Edinb. B. Rec. V 160.
To bye ane sufficient trunk to serve the commissioners to the conventioun of burrowes and he to resave it agane fra thame at thair returne and keip it to the townes use 1631–2 Misc. Spald. C. V 149.
For a trunk coverit with selches skyn coft at London to the townes use, 16 lib. 10 s. 1635 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II 43.
To seaze vpon thair persons [sc. forgers] and vpon thair trunkes coffers and kists wherein the saids false dollers … are keeped 1652 Lamont Diary 39.
Two of the English sequestrators … tooke vp ane inuentorie of euery thing in the house, wither in beds, truncks, or chambers 1679 Argyll Rentals II 25 Jan.
For carieing up the trunks and bagadge fra John Mitchells 1680 Breadalbane Doc. (Tours) 6.
A leather-meall made after the fashion of a trunk 1685 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LVIII 364.
A large trunk barred with iron 1689 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 258.
There was severall goods in trunks pertaining to Captain John Wallace who is now prisoner in the Bass
b. attrib. and comb.Trunk bed, a bed the base of which is a storage trunk. Trunk saddill, a box seat with a hinged top and which also serves as a trunk.attrib. 1624 Brechin Testaments IV 139a.
Ane kist of aik … Ane vther trunck kist … the said trunk kistcomb. (1) 1653 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XXIII 300.
One trunk bed, one table, one candle chist, with a case of shelfes(2) 1631–2 Misc. Spald. C. V 149.
For a trunk saidle with the furniture thairto 1640–1 Misc. Spald. C. V 157.
For dressing the trunk sadill to the parliament(3) 1686 Greyfriars Interments 30.
Trunkmaker
2. The trunk of the human body.1650 Rec. Kirk Scotl. 595.
The truncke of his bodey to be interrid by pioners in the Gray Friars
3. (A representation of) the trunk of a tree.1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 45.
On the walls … is drawen … the emblem of the deluge … in one corner … ye have a man making a great deall of work to win out, hees drawen hinging by the great tronc of a try
4. ? A shaft to which an arrow-head is attached.1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 288.
Arrowes for tronkes, the groce … iiii li., schooting arrowes, the groce xxiiii li.
5. The trunk of an elephant.1684 Law Memor. 177.
It [sc. the elephant] has no hair upon the skin of it … the trunk of it lirks, and it contracts it … and lets it out, as it pleases
6. The main body of water in an inlet of the sea. Cf. Oise n.21690 T. Brown Diary 63.
Ther being Patrick Fea's ship and Edward Scollay's lying in the trunck of the oyce [pr. oyre], they was both blawin verie neir Pittaquoy
