DCHP-1 Online

trunk road

• an access road (def. 1), so called because smaller forest trails branch from it.

  See also: access road (def. 1)  trunk line  

  • 1952  [We favour] Government extension of and responsibility for trunk roads in the Territories.
  • 1961  In the afternoon the cavalcade travelled the forestry trunk road known as The Loop. . . .
  • 1965  A trunk road curves 50 miles through Highwood Valley . . . to the prairies.