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trunked

SayTRUNGKT/tɹʌŋkt/

4 meanings of trunked

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  1. 1
    verb
    Past tense and past participle of trunk. Use it for something that already happened.

    The school trunked its phone lines so many people could call at once.

    All the office computers were trunked through one fast cable.

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  2. 2
    adjectivein compounds
    Having a certain kind of trunk. It is used after another word, as in thick-trunked.

    The park is full of thick-trunked oak trees.

    The baby elephant was short-trunked and a little clumsy.

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  3. 3
    adjective
    Of a two-way radio system, giving groups of radios a free channel automatically when they need one.

    Our fire department uses a trunked radio system.

    With trunked radios, the city's road crews almost never wait for a free channel.

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  1. 4
    adjectiveobsolete
    Cut off, or badly cut so that parts are missing.
    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, The Faerie QueeneHere, truncked means cut off, so the beast's head was cut away.
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trunked is a form of trunk

trunk, verb: To let many users use a network at the same time by sharing a few lines or channels. Full entry

Forms
trunktrunks he/she/ittrunking -ing formtrunked past tense, past participle
Spelling
trunk → trunked: add -ed
Sound
The ending sounds like /t/.

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Origin

From trunk with -ed added.