Oak-trunk

  • 07.034 in the middle there was lying a great oak-trunk

This concept, not just a trunk modified by the type of tree, has its own OED sub-entry which is spelled both with and without hyphens.

“oak, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/129461. Accessed 19 September 2017.

Leave a comment