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单词 trunked
释义 I. trunked, ppl. a.1|trʌŋkt|
[f. trunk v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Cut short, truncated; lopped; mutilated. Obs. exc. as in 2.
1551–2in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 79 A payre of sleves trunked.1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 36 They be named Colures, or trunckid circles.1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 24/1 By reason they had beene so long couered,..buried vnder the sands, they stood as trunked and polled trees.1590Spenser F.Q. ii. v. 4 The sharpe steele..from the head the body sundred quight... The truncked beast fast bleeding did him fowly dight.1594? Greene Selimus Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 249 My blood, Streaming in riuers from my tronked armes.
2. Her. (a) Having the extremities cut off smoothly: = couped. (b) Of the head of a beast: Cut off close behind the horns; = caboched.
a1550in Baring-Gould & Twigge W. Armory (1898) 4 A fesse trunked betweene 3 escalops sab.1610Bolton Elem. Armories 111 Of that maim'd, or truncked kinde, are this, and the like.1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. iv. 95 Argent; two Billets Raguled, and Truncked, placed Saltirewaies.Ibid. xiv. 128 These horned beasts..haue also their heads borne Trunked [ed. 1638 adds Which of some Armorists is blazoned Cabossed].1766–84Porny Heraldry (ed. 4) Gloss., Trunked.., is applied to Trees, &c. that are couped or cut off smooth.c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. s.v. Trunk, When the tree is borne couped of all its branches, and separated from its roots, it is then termed trunked.Ibid., Trunked,..is likewise used in the same sense as cabossed, or caboshed, that is, showing only the head or face of a beast.
II. trunked, a. and ppl. a.2
(trʌŋkt, poet. ˈtrʌŋkɪd)
[In branch I, f. trunk n. + -ed2; in branch II, f. trunk v.2 (sense 2) + -ed1.]
I.
1. Having a trunk, as a tree; usually in compounds, as straight-trunked, etc., for which see the first element.
1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 48 Strong and well trunked Trees of all sorts.1852Meanderings of Mem. I. 132 The trunkëd forest's deep Where graces dance.1905Holman-Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism II. 74 The trees were mightily trunked and limbed.
b. Her. Having the trunk of a tincture different from the rest of the tree.
1678Phillips (ed. 4), Trunked, in Heraldry Trees growing on a Stock, are said to be Trunked.c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Trunked is..said of a tree, the main stem of which is borne of a different tincture from the branches.
2. Having a trunk or proboscis; proboscidiferous.
a1794Sir W. Jones Tales (1807) 182 In vain their high⁓priz'd tusks they gnash'd; Their trunked heads my Geda mash'd.1899Beazley & Prestage Disc. Guinea (Hakl. Soc.) II. 337 The Proboscidians, or trunked Pachyderms.1913A. G. Thacker tr. Buttel-Reepen's Man & Forerunners ii. 15 Great trunked mammals, precursors of our modern elephants.
3. Wearing trunks (trunk n. 17 a). rare.
1904M. Hewlett Queen's Quair i. vi, The Queen and her maids braved it as saucy young men, trunked, puffed, pointed, trussed and doubleted.
II.
4. Mining. Washed in a trunk (see trunk n. 9, v.2 2).
1828Henwood in Trans. R. Geol. Soc. Cornwall (1832) IV. 158 The operator..spreads on the jagging board from two to three quarts of the trunked slime.
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