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A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.

Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces; as, a truncated edge.

The act of truncating, lopping, or cutting off.

A stake; a small post. [Obs.]

A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear. With his truncheon he so rudely struck. Spenser.

Having a truncheon.

A person armed with a truncheon. [Written also truncheoner.]

The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5.

To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.

A low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also, sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels. Chapman.

One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.

A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail. Shak.

its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk. About the mossy trunk I wound me soon, For, high from ground, the branches would require Thy utmost reach. Milton.

An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines.

In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.

A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.

The leatherback.

Having (such) a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.