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Definition of Trunk lid
1. Noun. Hinged lid for a trunk.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trunk Lid
Literary usage of Trunk lid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"A clock-alarm, or one sprung by a trigger when a trunk-lid is opened. Taylor's
patent, 31754. March 19, 1861. Trunk-brace. The guard or stay which supports ..."
2. Housekeeping for Two: A Practical Guide for Beginners by Alice L. James (1909)
"... trunk lid, has a narrow ruffle sewed on the edge, so that when the trunk is
closed, the ruffle falls over the upper edge of the lower flounce. ..."
3. The Kentucky Law Reporter by Kentucky Court of Appeals (1905)
"The officer and his deputy say that the prisoner raised the trunk lid, grasped
a pistol that was in the trunk and presented it at the deputy, when appellant ..."
4. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1921)
"I'm going to stay right here. I like that boy, and I'm not going to let you put
him to the bad. LAURA. I want you to go. [Slams trunk lid down, ..."
5. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"I'm going to stay right here. I like that boy, and I'm not going to let you put
him to the bad. LAURA. I want you to go. [Stems trunk lid down, ..."
6. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1920)
"For ventilation, an opening is cut in each end of the trunk lid, about 8 in.
long and 2 in. wide, and wire mosquito netting is stretched across it. ..."
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