communication cord

British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

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"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."

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"I'm told there was a lady travelling on it last week, and she had a canary in a cage, and the canary got loose and flew out of the window, and by George, the lady pulled the communication cord, and stopped the train!"

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Merrick had been meantime invested with a similar rig-out, and then each was provided with a communication cord and an incandescent electric lamp.

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To think of the future as a modestly long series of such prone mornings, dawns unlit by heaven’s light, new days to which we should be awakened always by these clamant cockcrows bringing to our notice what the busy-ness of our fellows had accomplished in nests of intelligent and fruitful china eggs, was enough to make one stand up in the carriage, horrified, and pull the communication cord.

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