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▪ I. † trunch, n. Obs. rare.
[ad. F. tronche fem.:—pop.L. *trunca for truncus stump of a tree, trunk (14th c. in Godef.).]
1. = truncheon n. 3.
1590L. Lloyd Diall Daies Oct. 14 Tipstaves..with silver trunches and staves to go before.., and to keep the people in order.
2. A post, stake.
1622W. Bradford Relat. New Eng. 12 Little trunches knockt into the ground, and small stickes laid over, on which they hung their Pots.
▪ II. trunch, a. Now dial.|trʌnʃ|
[app. shortened f. truncheon a.; cf. L. truncus maimed, mutilated.]
Short and thick. Also in comb. trunch-made. Cf. truncheon a.
1683Lond. Gaz. No. 1842/8 Lost.., a Black Gelding,..a thick trunch Horse. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Trunch, trunch-made,..short and thick, compact and squab in figure.
Also trunched |trʌnʃt|, ˈtrunchy adjs. in same sense (U.S.). rare. ? Obs.
1787M. Cutler in Life, etc. (1888) I. 267, I saw a short, *trunched old man, in a plain Quaker dress.
1778Maryland Jrnl. 21 July Advt. (Thornton), A thick, *trunchy fellow. 1789Ibid. 21 Apr., A trunchy well-set bright-bay horse. |