Some persons leave a round bank of earth in the middle for the pole to rest on, but we much prefer fixing a log of wood, cut from a tree trunk, in the centre of the floor.
Canoes, hewn and dug from the solid tree trunk, are general and valuable; and there are few portions of the earth where forest trees grow to the requisite size that dug-out boats of some kind are not in use.
Leaning against one of the palm-tree trunk pillars, he chatted familiarly with some of his companions, and then went back to his room.
The "Mimbar," or pulpit, was fashioned out of a simple palm-tree trunk on which the Prophet mounted when he preached his sermons.
When he went up the steps of a pulpit newly constructed in the Mosque of Al-Madinah, the humble palm-tree trunk on which he habitually stood when preaching, began to groan and was only quieted when he laid his blessed fingers on it.
It glances up a tree trunk, And from some branch, I know A little spy in ambush Is measuring his foe.
The feet have a special arrangement of toes which allows the bird to cling tenaciously to a tree trunk.
How does it use its feet when resting on a tree trunk?
But no one was visible, no one was coming up or down the river; her own boat was the only thing that moved, swaying to and fro where she had left it tied to a tree trunk.
She leaned her head against the tree trunk, and sat for some time with her eyes closed.
This sex has been found resting on the twigs of birch, also on heather, and occasionally on a tree trunk.
The moth is out in July and August, and as an uncommon event may be seen at rest on a tree trunk or paling.
He pushed on, staggering, came to a sunken track, and, supporting himself against a tree trunk, looked fearfully around.
When he was hurled from the machine, his head had struck a tree trunk on the opposite side of the track.
It also gives hints about the usual locality of a bird, whether creeping over a tree trunk, on the wing, or elsewhere.
In one case, where the nest was in a tree trunk, the hole in the trunk had grown up, so that when big enough to fly, they could not get out, and they had been there for months.
A woodpecker's beak is a chisel or pick, to cut a deep hole in a tree trunk for a nest (Fig.
Woodpeckers have two turned forward and two turned back, so that they can hold better to a tree trunk (Fig.
She shrunk back against the yielding tree trunk, making herself smaller, as if she would escape those ardent eyes.
He must be prepared against stratagem, and he arose, trying to conceal his body behind a tree trunk, leaving nothing but an eye visible.
In most instances this maneuvering probably entailed some loss of heat by the lizard, as it interrupted its thermoregulatory behavior to run to a place of concealment, usually in shadow on a tree trunk, or in or beneath ground litter.
In moving downward or horizontally on a tree trunk or limb, a skink allows its heavy tail to bend downward from its own weight.
Gliding from tree trunk to tree trunk he soon arrived at the spot in which the canoes had been dragged ashore.
At Rob's orders the rope was passed round a tree trunk, and when Tubby had adjusted the rope under his arm pits the young Scouts began to haul.
Rob wheeled round swiftly, but not before a figure leaped toward him from behind a tree trunk.
Krag snatched the remaining, egg out of his hand and flung it against a tree trunk, where it broke and stuck, a splash of slime.
Setting her upright against the rugged tree trunk, he kissed her.
He stood till sunset like a tree trunk, and thought of other things.
Hebard (1920) observed a colony of adults and young of Dendroblatta sobrina on a tree trunk in the Panama Canal Zone.
Colony on tree trunk; on surface of trunk of fallen tree (Hebard, 1920).
The Phrygians, moreover, according to Firmicus Maternus, at the Spring Feast of Attis, used to fasten a ram or lamb at the foot of the fig-tree trunk on which the image of their God was hung.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tree trunk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
