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Army signalling?
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semaphore
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Semaphore usually refers to flag semaphore . It may also refer to; Optical-telegraph systems: Semaphore line , a system of long-distance communication based on towers with moving arms Railway semaphore signals for railway traffic control Other Traffic semaphore, ...
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n. an apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms
Usage examples of semaphore.
Boundy might have pondered long on the pugilistic attitude of the semaphore but for an event that, while he was most intent upon it, aimed a sudden thrust at his bump and his theory all at the same time.
She was no longer in the cave, but out on the scrub slopes of the bajada, a great-aunt of a saguaro rearing tall above her, signaling some slow semaphore to her relatives on a distant slope.
The Larry instructed me to tell Doctor Cummings and you too if possible, that I, formerly Tula, have changed my name to Tuly because I am no longer a slave or a copycat or a semaphore or a relay.
Signaling between skyships of this lost republic was accomplished by use of an elaborate semaphore array of lights and colored pannels which could be alternately hidden and revealed.
Semaphoring his credit card, Meadowbrook made a big thing of catching the tab.
His long arms, encased in NPS green, semaphored information and enthusiasm.
Laszlo to the last of the five hundred faces she had been flashing him since he woke up, and the surreptitious semaphoring of her hands signaling him to the front, the front of what?
He was wearing red shorts because he'd bicycled here, a five-mile ride, not because he wanted to semaphore his instant availability to the world at large.
Directly ahead of him rose a semaphore, placed at a point where evidently a derailing switch branched from the line.
Looking towards the north, he could distinguish Gibraltar faintly visible in the extreme distance, and upon the summit of the rock both Ben Zoof and himself fancied they could make out another semaphore, giving signals, no doubt, in response to the one here.
On the Tump, the old castle mound across the river, the big tower, one end of the Grand Trunk that wound more than two thousand miles across the continent to Genua, glittered with semaphore.
Before the semaphore, news from Genua took months to get here, now it takes less than a day.
If an antenna was beyond quick repair they signaled the problem through the hull, using a hydromechanical semaphore with a keyboard for unusually complex problems.
In addition to the semaphore towers, every town—and most of the villages—in range of our remotes contains at least one Church complex.
His fingers moved on the semaphore controls, directing the riggers to unpin the antennas.