English

trunkmaking

From trunk + making.

A compound of trunk + making

Latin truncus ‘a stock, lopped tree trunk’

Old French tronc ‘alms box, tree trunk, headless body’

Middle English tronke ‘a tree trunk’

English trunk

Old English macung

Middle English making

Today it means

noun The manufacture of trunks, chests, and cases.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / trunkmaking