point duty
Britishnoun
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the stationing of a policeman or traffic warden at a road junction to control and direct traffic
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the position at the head of a military patrol, regarded as being the most dangerous
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"I'm not sorry," said I, entering the little hut like a sentry-box which stands at the entrance to this old village high street for accommodation of the officer on point duty at that spot.
From The Green Eyes of Bâst by Sax Rohmer
"Do you mean she's on speaking terms with the policeman on point duty at Piccadilly Circus?"
From Jack O' Judgment by Edgar Wallace
And long after Smathers and Petrie had left him, and the wondering crowd had dispersed, and point duty at "Dead Man's Corner" was just point duty again and nothing more, P.C.
From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew
It was an easy matter to find the constable who had been on point duty at the crossing when the “accident” happened.
From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy
The traffic had never appeared so congested, the efforts of the agents on point duty so hopelessly futile.
From The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
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