See tronk on Wiktionary
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"args": {},
"expansion": "tronk (plural tronks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Afrikaans",
"English terms derived from Afrikaans",
"English terms derived from Dutch",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Portuguese",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *twerḱ-",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"South African English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1824, William John Burchell, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa:",
"text": "It must here be explained that the tronk, or jail, is the general receptacle, not only of convicted criminals, but of such Hottentots or slaves as are found, improperly or illegally wandering about the country […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1958, Isobel Rae, The strange story of Dr James Barry:",
"text": "The diary of another settler, who had been wrongfully imprisoned in the Tronk, and described the daily life there in no uncertain terms […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Lawrence George Green, Maureen Barnes, The best of Lawrence Green:",
"text": "It was built, as far as I can discover, because the Cape Argus rightly denounced the overcrowding of the old \"tronk\" on the waterfront.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A prison."
],
"links": [
[
"prison",
"prison"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(South Africa) A prison."
],
"tags": [
"South-Africa"
]
}
],
"word": "tronk"
}
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