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Meanings of trunnel in English

A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast.

Usage of trunnel in English
1
I slept in a little trunnel bed under my mother's mistress' bed.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
2
Into each of these we graved a piece of plank, and in one of them we drove a trunnel where none had been before.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
Frequent collocations
Trunnel through the time