truncks

It was also provided in the proposed act that there should be a "Water Bayly or searcher" appointed "in every port-towne" who was to be empowered to "search any suspitious persons or vessells, chests, truncks or any other things."

Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay [excerpts] 1901

Behind this building there is a vast Cistern wch holds upwards of 600 hodsheads of water which supplyes by pipes the whole Citty; this Cistern is replenished from the river wch is on purpose turned into a Little Channell by it self to turn the mill, and ffills the Engine that Casts ye water into the truncks wch Conveys it to this Cistern.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

These truncks or Baskets which keepes the ffish are ffastned by Chaines to the sides of the Banks in each mans Garden.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

Luckily they had enough space set up for someone on foot and traffic but the wind of those large truncks going past me from behind just got me worried.

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They have a Great Labour and Great expence to draine the mines of the water wth mills that horses turn, and now they have ye mills or water Engines that are turned by the water wch is Convey'd on frames of timber and truncks to hold ye water, wch falls down on ye wheeles as an over shott mill, and these are ye sort that turns ye water into ye severall towns I have seen about London, Darby and Exeter and many places more.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888