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towerman

[ tou-er-muhn ]

noun

, plural tow·er·men.
  1. Railroads. a person who works in a switch tower tow and, by means of a signal box, directs the movement of trains.
  2. Aviation. an air-traffic controller.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of towerman1

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95; tower 1 + -man
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Example Sentences

If the towerman set those switches and signals 319 times in the course of a day, they must be set absolutely correct 319 times.

But the towerman at Middleport said that he could not move the siding-switch there; it was packed in with ice and snow.

Eight times that towerman tried there in the midst of the storm to open that switch and eight times he reported failure.

He also asked the towerman to telegraph ahead to Dover for a substitute engineer.

The point of convergence is known to the towerman and all the other workers as the “throat” of the yard.

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