trunk line

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪn

Noun

trunk line (plural trunk lines)

1. (rail transport) A main railway line which usually forms the backbone of a rail network.

   Coordinate term: mainline

   • 1987, William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court:

     But the states were generally concerned with the location of trunk lines and left it to cities and counties to worry about branch lines.

2. The main line of a canal, from which other sections diverge.

Translations

main railway line

• Danish: stambane c
• Finnish: runkorata
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stambane m

  Nynorsk: stambane m or f

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See also

• trunkline

References

• “trunk line”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.