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Definition of Trunnels
1. trunnel [n] - See also: trunnel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trunnels
Literary usage of Trunnels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Farmer's Magazine (1838)
"These trunnels are the pins, of which so many are used to hold the ... All the
American public ships are built with locust trunnels, and so are all ..."
2. The Woodlands: Or, A Treatise on the Preparing of Ground for Planting; on ...by William Cobbett by William Cobbett (1825)
"These trunnels are the pins, of which so many are used to' hold the ... All the
American public ships are built with Locust trunnels, and so are all the ..."
3. Shaw's Civil Architecture: Being a Complete Theoretical and Practical System by Edward Shaw (1852)
"trunnels may be made of white oak, one and a half inches in diameter. They are
made very cheaply .and excellently by being rived out square, and driven, ..."
4. Civil Architecture: Or, A Complete Theoretical and Practical System of Building by Edward Shaw (1836)
"trunnels may be made of white oak, one and a half inches in diameter. They are
made very cheaply and excellently, by being rived out square, ..."
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