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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



... per cent.), and the average value of each transaction was 5s. 8d. There is a silence box in the Public Hall of the Bristol Post Office, from which conversations can be held with all parts of the Kingdom, with Belgium and France. Of course, the greater number of trunk line telephone conversations are held through the medium of the National Telephone Company's local exchange, but many important Bristol firms have contracted with the Post Office for private telephone wires in actual connection with the trunk ...
— The King's Post • R. C. Tombs

... railroad company that had employed him, and rode north along the river in the night train until he came to a large town named Burlington in the State of Iowa. There a bridge went over the river, and the railroad tracks joined those of a trunk line and ran eastward toward Chicago; but Hugh did not continue his journey on that night. Getting off the train he went to a nearby hotel and took a ...
— Poor White • Sherwood Anderson

... road extended toward the south. How far we had come we could not tell. We thought of going back to Wellsville and striking the main road again, but then Nyoda decided that by finding a road which ran toward the west we could strike the other trunk line route that went up to South Bend by way of Rochester and Plymouth. We did not want to make Wellsville again if we could possibly help it, for fear we would run into ...
— The Campfire Girls Go Motoring • Hildegard G. Frey



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



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