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  • noun Alternative spelling of tree trunk.

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Examples

  • We sat on the trike and on a treetrunk, and then played a bit, and came home, and made curry, and the girls laid the table, and we had dinner.

    Computer, day two ailbhe 2008

  • With that logic, i could propose that the flagella were formed by elves in a treetrunk, and my grand hypothesis would be falsified if it were shown to be done by other means.

    "Waterloo" delayed? Again? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • I made Lucky sit, knowing he'd refuse to walk on the arched fallen treetrunk, which was barely a foot in diameter -- _ten_ feet now -- felt myself start to feel sick as I walked up the curve of gray bark toward Mark, who wasn't afraid of heights.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • At the south end of the shallow bay was a long, high jetty straddling on great treetrunk poles out on to the sea, and carrying a long line of little red coal – trucks, the sort that can be tipped up.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • There were still gaps in the blockage where the larger boulders had lodged or where a treetrunk en sucked in. and jammed sideways across the width of the tunnel.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • He rolled to one side of the treetrunk and kicked out strongly.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • Just as it seemed they would crash into a treetrunk, Kim steered slightly to the right and missed the nearest tree, then slewed to the left and grazed the next.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

  • He stopped laughing abruptly as he felt the treetrunk veer across the river towards one of the canyon walls.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • Just as it seemed they would crash into a treetrunk, Kim steered slightly to the right and missed the nearest tree, then slewed to the left and grazed the next.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

  • Nicholas pulled himself up on he treetrunk, lying on his belly, facing downstream, to with his legs still dangling in the water.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

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