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trunk-maker

trunk-maker noun: a person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks).

Noun

trunk-maker (plural trunk-makers)

  1. A person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks).
  2. (obsolete) A critic who pounds upon the benches in a show of approval.
    • This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and...1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV

Forms of trunk-maker

pluraltrunk-makers

Questions about trunk-maker

What does trunk-maker mean?
Trunk-maker means a person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks).
What part of speech is trunk-maker?
Trunk-maker is a noun.
What is the plural of trunk-maker?
The plural of trunk-maker is trunk-makers.

Words near trunk-maker in the dictionary

  1. trunk show
  2. trunk shows
  3. trunk sleeve
  4. trunk sleeves
  5. trunk-like
  6. trunk-maker
  7. trunk-makers
  8. trunkal
  9. trunkamide
  10. trunkamides
  11. trunkback

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