Meaning of trunk-maker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks).
2. A critic who pounds upon the benches in a show of approval.
   obsolete

Examples

“This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.”

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