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Send a flag signal
Answer for the clue "Send a flag signal ", 6 letters:
wigwag
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states. vb. 1 to oscillate between two states. 2 to send a signal by waving a single flag.
Wikipedia
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Wigwag is the nickname given to a type of railroad grade crossing signal once common in North America, named for the pendulum -like motion it used to signal the approach of a train. It is generally credited to Albert Hunt , a mechanical engineer at Southern ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wigwag \Wig"wag`\, v. i. [See Wag , v. t.] (Naut.) To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose. [Colloq.]
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code signal by or as if by a flag or light waved according to a code [also: wigwagging , wigwagged ]
Usage examples of wigwag.
Custis had made wigwag signal flags out of two bamboo poles and two halves of his shirt.
He was signaling slowly, carefully, after the fashion of a man who was not too familiar with the wigwag system.
So she bloated up and dragged that pig iron back up off the bottom and used her foot to wigwag the first boat to come along.
He gets called for everything from Boy Scout wigwag ideas to super-cyclotronic-electron-stream beams to contact the outer planets.
With his index finger McKechnie made a wigwag motion over the glasses.
The little cardboard sign with peez godz scrawled on it in conventional Roman lettering wigwagged desperately over the heads of the gawking mob surrounding the short, dumpy little man whose only clothing was a pleated linen kilt, red leather sandals, and a heavy black Cleopatra wig.
In about half an hour he came to the window and wigwagged over for my benefit.
Brak pulled his broadsword, wigwagged it high over his head and hallooed again.
I was waving my arms to little effect so I crawled out of the drift, wigwagging more furiously until he spotted me.
The bomber pilot was wigwagging the tail so the waist gunners could get a shot, but only the left waist gun was working.
A few energetic jumping jacks leaped straight up fifty feet or more, wigwagging with both hands.
Half a dozen grim-faced Project members were wigwagging their arms wildly at him.
Elizabeth thrashes about in his grasp, wildly wigwagging her lean delicate arms, then frantically kicking her long frail legs in the air as Paco, roaring with laughter, upends her.
They were not just running, they were gleefully leaping and bounding as they came, and pointing at the wagons and wigwagging at the elephant as though they were old acquaintances of hers.
Evers lifted his chin to frown curiously at Trace, the cigar wigwagging from his teeth.