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"text": "Coordinate term: mainline"
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"ref": "1987, William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court",
"text": "But the states were generally concerned with the location of trunk lines and left it to cities and counties to worry about branch lines.",
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"A main railway line which usually forms the backbone of a rail network."
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"(rail transport) A main railway line which usually forms the backbone of a rail network."
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"The main line of a canal, from which other sections diverge."
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"ref": "1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 13, column 2",
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"A main telephone line."
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"sense": "main railway line",
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"sense": "main railway line",
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}
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"word": "trunk line"
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