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main-line

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main-line [ˈmeɪnˌlaɪn] adj (Rail) → della linea principale
main-line [ˈmeɪnˌlaɪn] adj (Rail) → della linea principale


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Then, too, there were the main-line feeders for his ferry system, tapping every portion of Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley, and running fast expresses to the pier end.
By obtaining control of a certain up-country bank, two general stores, and several logging camps, he could come into control of a certain dinky jerkwater line which shall here be nameless, but which, in his hands, would prove the key to a vastly larger situation involving more main-line mileage almost than there were spikes in the aforesaid dinky jerkwater.
 
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