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Trunk line   /trəŋk laɪn/   Listen
Trunk line

noun
1.
Line that is the main route on a railway.  Synonym: trunk route.
2.
A telephone line connecting two exchanges directly.





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"Trunk line" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the St. Paul and Sioux City at St. Peter's and Mankato; draining one of the most fertile districts in the commonwealth of its immense stores of wheat and other grains seeking an outlet and an eastern market. This road is known as the Winona and St. Peter's, and is a trunk line, with the sure promise of increasing importance to the State and profit to its projectors. By means of it the great lumber marts of Minneapolis and St. Anthony, and likewise the Capital, are brought ...
— Minnesota; Its Character and Climate • Ledyard Bill
... the hillside pastures to the frozen Inn river below—a splendid course of two miles in all. But as a matter of precaution it was strictly forbidden ever to be used—at least in that part of it which crossed the village street. For such projectiles as laden toboggans, passing across the trunk line of the village traffic at an average rate of a mile a minute, were hardly less dangerous than cannon-balls, and of much ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett


Words linked to "Trunk line" :   telephone line, line, telephone circuit, railway line, rail line, phone line, subscriber line


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