signalman
Americannoun
noun
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a railway employee in charge of the signals and points within a section
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a man who sends and receives signals, esp in the navy
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Jacobs was 17 when he joined the Navy in November 1944, after D-Day, and became a Navy signalman.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024
The first lady was one of those kids; she’s the daughter of a Navy signalman.
From Washington Times • Sep. 26, 2023
After the ship took him to the South Korean city of Busan, on the peninsula’s southern coast, he served as a signalman in the South’s army.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
Mr Moore, a former volunteer signalman on a heritage railway, helped set up the Lowdham Railway Heritage charity and donated some land near his garden as a site for the museum.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2021
Will remembered that the signalman at the junction was in the pay of General Carabaño, so that the omission of what would otherwise have been an essential precaution was explicable.
From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert
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