Now dial. [app. shortened f. TRUNCHEON a.; cf. L. truncus maimed, mutilated.] Short and thick. Also in comb. trunch-made. Cf. TRUNCHEON a.

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1683.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1842/8. Lost…, a Black Gelding,… a thick trunch Horse.

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a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Trunch, trunch-made,… short and thick, compact and squab in figure.

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  Also Trunched, Trunchy adjs. in same sense (U.S.), rare. ? Obs.

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1787.  M. Cutler, in Life, etc. (1888), I. 267. I saw a short, *trunched old man, in a plain Quaker dress.

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1778.  Maryland Jrnl., 21 July, Advt. (Thornton). A thick, *trunchy fellow. Ibid. (1789), 21 April. A trunchy well-set bright-bay horse.

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