Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
branch-cut .
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Examples
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The branch-line train had clattered in, and Chan was calling to him from the car steps.
Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010
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David stepped onto the platform and walked toward the branch-line track that led to Princeton University.
Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008
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David stepped onto the platform and walked toward the branch-line track that led to Princeton University.
Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008
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David stepped onto the platform and walked toward the branch-line track that led to Princeton University.
Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008
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Lal Masjid was discovered to be the branch-line station of Al Qaeda.
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Luke refused to spend that Saturday night at the Imperial, for the branch-line train to Goondiwindi left only once a week, on Saturday night, to connect with the Goondiwindi — Brisbane mail train on Sunday.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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That afternoon, however, I caught the branch-line train that winds from Germany's greatest seaport into the country beyond.
England Under Hitler Clarke, Comer 1961
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They reached a railroad track, the quadruple track of a branch-line from New York to Philadelphia.
Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 Murray Leinster 1935
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The C.P.R. construction, including branch-line construction, lasted into the nineties and for a few years afterwards there was little railway construction in Canada.
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The Canadian Pacific during this period engaged also in a great deal of branch-line construction.
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