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Answer for the clue "Someone who communicates by signals ", 9 letters:
signaller

Word definitions for signaller in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Being explicit about internal state is an obvious advantage to the signaller as well as to the receiver. ▪ In one case a signaller worked 30 consecutive days.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who communicates by signals [syn: signaler ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (label en British spelling) One who signals.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A signaller or signaleer in the armed forces is a specialist soldier , seaman or airman responsible for military communications . Signallers, aka Combat Signallers or signalmen or women, are commonly employed as radio or telephone operators, relaying messages ...

Usage examples of signaller.

Her duty that night was in the control office on the aerodrome, supervising the signallers and keeping track of the machines as the reports came in, marking them up upon the blackboard for the duty control officer to see, searching the country by telephone for the missing.

All he had with him were his runners, his company signallers and a few batmen.

The signallers of the individual centuries picked up the concentus, until the massed call had spread past Vibulenus to the horn of the cohort's First Century.

The signallers were lowering their instruments and looking toward Vibulenus — more accurately, looking at the cohort kneeling on the flank which had caused the Commander to delay the concentus of all horns and trumpets to order the attack.

The signallers were lowering their instruments and looking toward Vibulenus — more accurately, looking at the cohort kneeling on the flank which had caused the Commander to delay the concentus of all horns and trumpets to order the attack.

The officers cursed and dogwhipped their way through to fall into a ragged line before Raj where he waited with the signallers and Battalion standard.

And all old signallers knew that if the connecting rod operating the shutters on the down-line was pushed up to open them on the same blink as the connecting rod on the up-line was pulled down to close the shutters on the other side of the tower, the tower lurched.