trunk curl

British

noun

another term for sit-up See sit up

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So he lifts three-pound weights doing seven exercises: arm row, squat, lateral raise, curl, overhead tricep extensions, bench press and trunk curl.

From Washington Times

“What a fool I was!” he thought, for he felt the trunk curl round his neck and tighten gently; and his heart began to fail, when it was uncurled, and stretched out again; the wall overhead creaked loudly, and the end of the trunk was dipped in the big earthen jar.

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