Sentence:  With a powerful foot it drives the culverin into the ground and continues hot-trunk on its way in the <WSD>pachydermic</WSD> hope of reducing to mincemeat the vermin it perceives, but the dogs are already in their kennels, the horses in the stables and the arttillarymen hard by the drawbridge. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Pertaining to or involving elephants.