Definition of "trunkmaker" [trunkmaker]

• A maker of trunks, chests, and cases. (noun)

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• "In any case, the trunkmaker was a sort of foreshadowing of the _claqueur_."
• "For the trunkmaker is the _principal_ in the concern -- he makes the trunk, whereas the author, quite a secondary artist, furnishes only the linings."
• ""Proud Percys," a claimant of the title of Duke of Northumberland, was a Dublin trunkmaker; and not many years since one of the claimants for the title of Earl of Perth presented himself in the person of a laborer in a Northumberland coal-pit."