Trunk

trunk, n. The stem or body of a tree, apar from limbs and roots: stock; the body of an animal, apart from the limbs; the main body of anything; the snout or proboscis of an elephant; a wooden, etc., tube, spout, trough, or boxed pa age; a box or chest covered with leather or hide, for containing clothes, etc.; a portmanteau. [F. tronc, L. truncus, a trunk, stem, trunk of the body, piece cut off, also maimed, mutilated, prob. torquere, to twist, wrench, and torture.] — Trune'ate, v. To cut off, lop, maim. — a. (Bot.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip. [L. truncare, -catum, ii. truncus.] —