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communication cord

British

noun

a cord or chain in a train which may be pulled by a passenger to stop the train in an emergency

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communication cord

She screamed, tore herself away; sprang up and pulled a communication cord.

From The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

"So perhaps it'd be just as well for me not to have thought of the communication cord, eh?"

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming

"I don't intend to allow you to touch the communication cord."

From A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

"If you don't go back to the other end of the carriage at once I'll pull the communication cord and stop the train."

From A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

"I can wave to the engine-driver as we go round a bend if you think it's any good, or, of course, there's always the communication cord, only—" I broke off and looked at her.

From The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates

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