pointsman

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English

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Etymology

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From points +‎ man.

Noun

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pointsman (plural pointsmen)

  1. (rail transport) A man in charge of railroad points or switches.
    • 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 57:
      At their point of origin, constructing these boxes presented railway companies with an attractive proposition: to remove the need for pointsmen and flagmen operating at several ground-level locations around a railway site by housing one or two men in a signal structure.

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