linkman

British

/ ˈlɪŋkmən /

noun

a presenter of a television or radio programme, esp a sports transmission, consisting of a number of outside broadcasts from different locations
another word for linkboy

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They strolled down the road for a few moments in silence, passing a linkman on the way.

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And this was so thick that late fashionables, riding home in their grand carriages, were preceded each carriage by a pair of linkmen.

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I got all my information, when it was over, as well as I could, from an inebriated linkman.

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I am stopping the way, and the linkman is getting quite excited over it.'

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Though thou art tempted by the linkman's call, Yet trust him not along the lonely wall; In the midway he'll quench the flaming brand, And share the booty with the pilfering band.

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