truik

t. [Lat.trunco=to truncate (q. v.).] *1. Ord. Lang.: To truncate, to maim, to lop. "They stood as trunked and poled trees."-Holinshed Conquest of Ireland, ch. xxvi. 2. Mining: To separate, as the slimes of ore, into heavier or metalliferous and lighter or worthle portions. trŭńked, a. [Eng. trunk, s.; -ed.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Having a trunk. "She is thick set with strong and well trunked trees." Howell . 2. Her .: A term applied to a tree which is borne couped of all its branches and separated from its roots; also, when the main stem of a tree is borne of a different tincture from the branches, it is said to be trunked of such a tincture.