[In branch I, f. TRUNK sb. + -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.
1640. Howell, Dodona’s Gr., 48. Strong and well trunked Trees of all sorts.
1852. Meanderings of Mem., I. 132. The trunkëd forest’s deep Where graces dance.
1905. Holman-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.
1678. Phillips (ed. 4), Trunked, in Heraldry Trees growing on a Stock, are said to be Trunked.
c. 1828. Berry, 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.
a. 1794. Sir W. Jones, Tales (1897), 182. In vain their high-priz’d tusks they gnash’d; Their trunked heads my Geda mash’d.
1899. Beazley & Prestage, Disc. Guinea (Hakl. Soc.), II. 337. The Proboscidians, or trunked Pachyderms.
1913. A. G. Thacker, trans. Buttel-Reepen’s Man & Forerunners, ii. 15. Great trunked mammals, precursors of our modern elephants.
3. Wearing trunks (TRUNK sb. 17 a). rare.
1904. M. 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 sb. 9, v.2 2).
1828. Henwood, 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.
