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  • noun US, transport Any road under the jurisdiction of the Michigan Department of Transportation.

Etymologies

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trunk +‎ line

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Examples

  • Nancy Minshew, a professor of neurology at the University of Pittsburgh, conducted tests on her brain that showed a "gigantic, huge trunkline going back into the primary visual cortex," Ms. Grandin says.

    Life Among the 'Yakkity Yaks' Bari Weiss 2010

  • Shell declared a force majeure on its Nigeria Forcados offtake program for the remainder of June and for July as a result of the damage to the TransForcados trunkline at Chanomi Creek at its western operations in the Niger Delta.

    Attacks Cripple Shell's Niger Delta Operations Obafemi Oredein 2009

  • They include two pipelines at Adamakiri and Kula in Nigeria's southeast Rivers state; the Forcados off-shore platform in western Delta state; the well head of the Afremo offshore oil fields in Delta state; and the crude oil trunkline which supplies the Forcados export terminal in Bayelsa state.

    Attacks Cripple Shell's Niger Delta Operations Obafemi Oredein 2009

  • President Putin signed an agreement during his trip to Serbia that stipulates construction of a gas trunkline in Serbia with a throughput capacity of 10 billion cubic meters per year.

    A quick round-up Helen 2008

  • For clarifications, call 922-1830 (direct line) or 981-8500, loc. 2117 (trunkline) posted by Dean at

    Archive 2004-11-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • For clarifications, call 922-1830 (direct line) or 981-8500, loc. 2117 (trunkline) posted by Dean at

    UP writers workshop v.44 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • The bank officer also helped him to plug into the financial trunkline and assess all his holdings at other branches and even at other banks.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • McKean County, including a 10-mile 16" trunkline connected and flowing to Tennessee Gas Pipeline's 24" mainline; and

    unknown title 2011

  • Georgia's main trunkline is used for the transmission of natural gas from Russia into

    Civil.Ge Daily News 2010

  • Rodarte Construction, Inc., on its bid of $465,690.53 budgeted from the Wastewater and Water Bond Funds, for a sanitary sewer trunkline reroute and water main extension in North

    Exit133.com Derek Young 2010

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