[f. TRUNK sb. + -FUL.] As much or as many as a trunk will hold.
1707. Hearne, Collect., 25 Oct. (O.H.S.), II. 65. A whole trunkful of papers.
1836. Observer, 18 July, 3/5. The rhinoceros was one day observed pushing his straw to the side of his apartment within reach of the elephant’s trunk, who protruded that organ round the end of the partition, and from time to time bore off the litter. Trunkful after trunkful was abstracted.
1883. Century Mag., XXVI. 370. A trunkful of dresses fresh from Worth’s.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, xii. 259. Some [elephants] drew up trunkfuls of water and syringed themselves and each other.
