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trunked

trunked adjective: having some specific type of trunk. Also the simple past and past participle of trunk.

Adjective

trunked (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds) Having some specific type of trunk.
    • large-trunked trees
    • a picture of a two-trunked elephant
  2. (obsolete) Cut off, severed; mutilated.
    • from the head the body sundred quight. / So him dismounted low, he did compell / On foot with him to matchen equall fight; / The truncked beast fast bleeding, did him fowly dight.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. Of a two-way radio system: using a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios.

Also used as

trunked is also the simple past and past participle of trunk.

Origin of trunked

From trunk + -ed.

Words formed from trunked

Questions about trunked

What does trunked mean?
Trunked means having some specific type of trunk.
What part of speech is trunked?
Trunked is an adjective.

Words near trunked in the dictionary

  1. trunkal
  2. trunkamide
  3. trunkamides
  4. trunkback
  5. trunkbacks
  6. trunked
  7. trunker
  8. trunkers
  9. Trunkey Creek
  10. trunkfish
  11. trunkfishes

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