pointsman
noun
a railway switchman.
pointsmen
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pluralof pointsman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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That railway porters, pointsmen, guards, firemen, and drivers are, as Mr. Joynes well urges, often badly paid, and nearly always overworked, is true, but making the railways State property would not necessarily improve this.
From Some Objections To Socialism From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures by Charles Bradlaugh
Then, at all the junctions, sidings, and crossings, pointsmen are stationed, with definite instructions as to the duties to be performed by them.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
Intelligent non-commissioned officers and men were converted into shunters, guards, and pointsmen.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill
Only on these conditions can a railway manager be sure that his pointsmen are on the job.
From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by John Durand
Mr. Harding thought that all porters and stokers, guards, brakesmen, and pointsmen ought to have an opportunity of going to church, and he hoped that they all had.
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
