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Signalman

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Somebody employed to operate the signals and points of a railway.

n. A member of the armed forces responsible for signalling.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. 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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One whose duty it is to convey intelligence, notice, warning, or the like by means of signals; a signaler; in nautical or military service, one who makes signals and reads or interprets the signals received; an expert in signals.

n. In lumbering, one who transmits orders from the foreman of a yarding-crew to the engineer of the yarding-donkey.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard

Word Usage

"In total, he called the signalman three times requesting help, and another London Underground member of staff, Dave Matthews, had called once, but the line was cut off."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

railroad man railwayman railway man signaler trainman

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

signaller

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