Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A highway; a main road.
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Examples
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They would come out eventually somewhere on the trunk-road to Barton's Mills -- that was all there was to it.
The Miracle Man 1909
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This being the most convenient station whence to ascend Paras-nath, we started at 6 a.m. for the village of Maddaobund, at the north base of the mountain, or opposite side from that on which the grand trunk-road runs.
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I left Calcutta to join Mr. Williams 'camp on the 28th of January, driving to Hoogly on the river of that name, and thence following the grand trunk-road westward towards Burdwan.
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These towns are not, in my opinion, a natural growth, but have been forced into their present magnitude from the difficulties in obtaining land at a price to make up for the utter want of every convenience, a want arising from the total absence of any effort on the part of the government hitherto to make even one great trunk-road through the colony.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852 Various 1836
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