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Chief part of a rail network
Answer for the clue "Chief part of a rail network ", 9 letters:
main line
Word definitions for main line in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Columbus to Indianapolis via Bradford Main Line was a rail line owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the U.S. state of Ohio . The line ran from Bradford on the Columbus to Chicago Main Line southwest to New Paris on the Pittsburgh to St. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the principal route of a transportation system
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The principal route or line of a railway. 2 (context fishing Finnish) In longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached. 3 (context slang English) A principal vein into which a drug can be injected.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shaft \Shaft\, n. [OE. shaft, schaft, AS. sceaft; akin to D. schacht, OHG. scaft, G. schaft, Dan. & Sw. skaft handle, haft, Icel. skapt, and probably to L. scapus, Gr. ????, ????, a staff. Probably originally, a shaven or smoothed rod. Cf. Scape , Scepter ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"principal line of a railway," 1841; meaning "affluent area of residence" is by 1917, originally (with capitals) that of Philadelphia, from the "main line" of the Pennsylvania Railroad which added local stops to a string of backwater towns west of the city ...
Usage examples of main line.
Single railway tracks branched off from the main line, snaking out to the silo yards through narrow cuttings and along embankments.
Only a few pods had broken open on impact with the ground and lay scattered about in small heaps, but the main line of pods led directly to the wreck.
Natural selection was taking its toll along the main line of dominance, too, leading to the one minor branch that provided what was necessary for sentience, for dominance.
It is much harder to decide which experiments not to do because they won't give conclusive results, or will provide merely trivial knowledge, or are a distraction from the main line of the work.
Vorontsyev lay in the shelter of a rock ledge which overlooked the main line between Khabarovsk and Vladivostok.
They would have to be re-quartered and housed in an area that would not be in the main line of Hollander's presumed direction of attack.
Here, close to shore, a freight siding swung in from the main line leading into the plant proper.