Definitions
1.NounA domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.
2.NounA stubborn person.
3.NounA fool.
4.NounA small auxiliary engine.
5.NounA box or chest, especially a toolbox.
6.NounA bad poker player.
7.NounA sailor's storage chest.
8.Noun↑ Barnhart, Robert and Steinmetz, Sol, editors (1988), “donkey”, in The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, Bronxville, N.Y.: The H. W. Wilson Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 295, column 2.
9.Noun↑ Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “donkey”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 283, column 2; reprinted 1994.