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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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Example Sentences

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

From The Good Soldier by Ford, Ford Madox

At the moment which I had calculated to be most auspicious I suddenly threw off the semblance of boredom, rose up, lurched across the carriage and pulled the communication cord.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. by Various

"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 Fleming, Oliver

"Why didn't you pull the communication cord?" asked the station-master, pompously stern.

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Fleming, Oliver

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

From A Master of Deception by Marsh, Richard

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