n. In cricket, the score-board upon which numbers indicating the progress of the game are displayed.n. In ship-building, an apparatus for transmitting and receiving orders mechanically.n. A chute or trough, usually of sheet-steel, by which coal or ore or refuse is carried by gravity from screens or other dressing machinery to the desired point of disposal.n. An apparatus for transmitting intelligible messages to a distance.n. n. An electric telegraph of the needle or pointer class.n. A system of transmission for signals in which a bell is sounded and a pointer caused to indicate a message by the compression of air in a reservoir at one end of a long tube, the compression being transmitted to the opposite end of the tube. This system is used in hotels, manufactories, etc., and to transmit steering and steaming directions on shipboard.To transmit or convey, as a communication, speech, intelligence, or order, by a semaphore or telegraph, especially by the electric telegraph.To send a message by telegraph.To signal; communicate by signs.