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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



... it on a map, most large and fine (I saw it with the naked eye—no dream), Showing how trains upon the Grand Trunk line, Grand but Pacific, run along by steam Right to Prince Rupert on the sea (a port) And there are brought ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 • Various
... extensive but antiquated domestic: more than two-thirds of the lines are residential; telephone service is available in most villages; a fairly modern digital cable trunk line now connects switching centers in most of the regions, the others are connected by digital microwave radio relay international: country code - 359; direct dialing to 58 countries; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... half a dozen States in the Northwest. Any interference with its competitive activity will harm millions of Western people, tending as it will to increase cost of transportation and re-establish trunk line pooling monopoly. ...
— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom
... 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 in close proximity to this commercial city of Winona; and much of the trade and ...
— Minnesota; Its Character and Climate • Ledyard Bill
... in producing vibrations in the Observatory. After much correspondence, examination of ground, &c., I fixed upon a part of the Greenwich Railway (not yet opened for traffic) near the place where the Croydon trunk line now joins it, as the place for trains to run upon, while I made observations with a telescope viewing a collimator by reflection in mercury at the distance of 500 feet. The experiments were made on Jan. 25th, and I reported on Feb. 4th. It was shewn that there would ...
— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy


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