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Definition of Trunk line
1. Noun. Line that is the main route on a railway.
2. Noun. A telephone line connecting two exchanges directly.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trunk Line
Literary usage of Trunk line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The number of the desired line is then transmitted over the call circuit to
the "B" operator, who, by visual inspection, selects an idle trunk line and ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1904)
"A description of a single phase, high tension, alternating current system for
operating trunk line railways. Conversion takes place on each locomotive and ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"In the early days, an- operator, initiating a trunked connection, by applying
the busy test, selected an idle trunk line over which she called the operator ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"In a proceeding before the Commission to* require trunk line railways to absorb
charges of a terminal railway company, on the ground of discrimination as ..."
5. Railroad Traffic and Rates by Emory Richard Johnson, Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1911)
"... trunk line AND CENTRAL FREIGHT ASSOCIATION TERRITORIES Conditions accounting
for several rate systems in tlie United States— Territory of the "trunk ..."
6. Railroads, Rates and Regulation by William Zebina Ripley (1913)
"CHAPTER X THE trunk line RATE SYSTEM: A DISTANCE TARIFF Conditions prevalent in 1875
... THE trunk line freight rate system effectively demonstrates certain ..."
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