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English

Etymology

From Middle English tronke, trunke, borrowed from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t???k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t???k/, [t?????k], [t???k]
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

trunk (plural trunks)

1. (heading, biological) Part of a body.
   1. The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
   2. The torso.
   3. The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
2. (heading) A container.
   1. A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.

      • There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.

   2. A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
   3. (US, Canada, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot
3. (heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
   1. (US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
   2. A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
   3. A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
   4. (archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
      • 13 March, 1623, James Howell, "To the Lord Viscount Col. from Madrid" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

        He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk.

   5. (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
4. (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
5. The main line or body of anything.
   1. (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
   2. (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
6. A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
7. (in the plural) Short for swimming trunks.

Synonyms

• (luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car): boot (UK, Aus), dicky (India)
• (upright part of a tree): tree trunk
• (nose of an elephant): proboscis

Hyponyms

• (a large suitcase; a chest for holding goods): footlocker

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• trunk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• trunk in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

trunk (third-person singular simple present trunks, present participle trunking, simple past and past participle trunked)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
2. (transitive, mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
3. (telecommunications) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.

Anagrams

• K-turn

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?ch, IPA^(key): /hæt?/
• Hyphenation: hatch
• Rhymes: -æt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæ?, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

Noun

hatch (plural hatches)

1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
2. A trapdoor.
3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.

4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
5. (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
6. (slang) A gullet.
7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

9. (Scotland) A bedstead.
10. (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

1. (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English hæ??an, ?ha??ian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjan?.

Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

1. (intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
2. (intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
3. (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
4. (transitive) To devise.

Derived terms

• hatchling

Translations

References

Noun

hatch (plural hatches)

1. The act of hatching.
2. (figuratively) Development; disclosure; discovery.
3. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.

5. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
   • a. 1947, Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947, Charles K. Fox, Redistribution of the Green Drake, 1997, Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), Limestone Legends, page 104,

     The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.
6. (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hak?n, *hakk?n, from Proto-Germanic *hakk?n? (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

1. (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

   • His weapon hatch'd in blood.

Translations

See also

• Hatch End

Further reading

• Hatch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Thach, tchah