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▪ I. ‖ tronk|trɒŋk|
[Cape Dutch, ad. Pg. tronco trunk, stock (of a tree), the stocks, by extension ‘prison’. (Unknown in Du. of Holland.)]
A prison.
1693Gov. Rec. Fort St. George, Madras, The justices..committed him to the Custody of the Talliars in the Trunke, but on the 21 September last, he made his escape by breaking through the Prison wall. 1863Lady Duff Gordon Lett. fr. Egypt, etc. (1875) 259 He..informed me he had just been in the Tronk. 1897Daily News 31 Mar. 6/4 Discomfort inflicted by the Boers on their prisoners in the tronk at Pretoria. 1905Blackw. Mag. Sept. 389/1 You shall be caught. You shall go to tronk.
▪ II. tronk, tronke
obs. forms of trunk. |