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signalman

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signalman
1. a railway employee in charge of the signals and points within a section
2. a man who sends and receives signals, esp in the navy


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In "Nitelites," young Lad imagines he is a railway signalman, waving firefly "lanterns" in the air as trains rush past in the dark night.
He remained in the Naval reserves for 20 years, starting as a signalman and retiring as a lieutenant commander.
Chemrukov, signalman from the destroyer Karl Liebknecht, who operated the fort's radio station, intercepted, on May 5, 1919, a radiogram saying that the steamship Leila with a military mission headed by Gen.
 
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