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A railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard
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signalman
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A signalman is a person who historically made signals using flags and light. In modern times, the role of signalmen has evolved and now usually uses electronic communication equipment. Signalmen usually work in rail transport networks, armed forces, or ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 Somebody employed to operate the signals and points of a railway. 2 A member of the armed forces responsible for signalling.
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n. a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Signalman \Sig"nal*man\, n.; pl. -men . A man whose business is to manage or display signals; especially, one employed in setting the signals by which railroad trains are run or warned.
Usage examples of signalman.
He snapped orders to his signalman, who translated them into bugle calls.
Beside him was a signalman waiting to haul down the Jack once contact with the land had been cut.
One signalman and a messenger who had been carrying a fanny of cocoa to the bridge had died.
Only Parvin, the leading signalman, who had been in the ship when Wingate had first joined her, understood and felt something like pity for him.
Keyes ran to him, his eyes brimming with tears, blind even to the grotesque thing with the unlit cigarette in its mouth, or Hillier face-down on the deck across a bloodied signalman, of Tucker sitting with his back against the flag-locker, his hands interlaced across his stomach and the crimson mess which seemed to defy his fingers in its efforts to reach the deck.
The signalman cursed as a spent bullet clanged against the bridge and whimpered plaintively over the other side.
Tell Ordinary Signalman Murray to find some cups and fetch the bridge party something hot.
The signalman did not bother to look up, but spread out the uppermost flag.
As he walked down the ladder a signalman held out a stained battle ensign.
And he cried it in a terrible voice, for he knew that if a signalman sleeps on duty, he risks losing his situation, let alone all the other dreadful risks to trains which expect him to tell them when it is safe for them to go their ways.
When the signalman on the south rim sharply struck the ground with his flag, Keselo stopped.
Then he went back to the tree-snag and moved east until the signalman on the other side told him to stop.
Hook-Beak led his men along the narrow creek-bed Longbow and his archers were following to reach the position the signalman across the ravine had chosen for them.
When the men were concentrated in war carts, there was always a signalman handy in every sixth cart, so there was no point wasting a Big Person on one.
He glanced at the gangway petty officer, Engstrand, a tall broad-shouldered first-class signalman, who was leaning against the desk, enjoying the byplay with a toothy grin.