trunk lines
trunk lines is the plural of trunk line.
Meaning of trunk line
Noun
trunk line (plural trunk lines)
- A main railway line which usually forms the backbone of a rail network.
- But the states were generally concerned with the location of trunk lines and left it to cities and counties to worry about branch lines.1987, William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court
- The main line of a canal, from which other sections diverge.
- A main telephone line.
- Then he put a trunk line phone call through to the nearest township and asked the Police to send someone out as soon as possible.1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 13, column 2
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