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Meanings of signalman in English

Portuguese
guarda-chaves
Spanish
guardagujas
Catalan
guardavies
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Employee of a railway transport network.

Related terms
guarda-chaves
Catalan
senyaler
Spanish
señalizador

At sea.

Related terms
senyaler
Synonyms
Examples for "signaller"
Examples for "signaller"
1
She stood erect, the signaller holding her right arm above the elbow.
In Secret
2
The gunner-signaller had climbed out first, with blood all over him.
A writer at war: vasily grossman with the red army
3
Am sitting in my dug-out scrawling this by the light of a signaller's lamp.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie / (commanding 1st Batt...
4
Doubt if we had a signaller on board so quick!
"Over There" with the Australians
5
We hoped that every fighting-man in the country would in time become an expert signaller.
The Lady of the Shroud
1
The spider came back as Sam was delicately probing the hard drives of the network controller.
Brain jack
2
There were trip wires on the network controller.
Brain jack
3
This is a different animal from Nicira's virtual network controller, but it involves some of the same concepts.
Wired
4
He simply had to trace the security requests, which all had to be routed through the network controller.
Brain jack
5
The network controller looked him up and down, decided that he was the new laptop, and happily authenticated him.
Brain jack
Usage of signalman in English
1
The sun was high when a signalman came along the permanent way.
Selected Polish Tales
2
The signalman was sent up, and said it looked like a raft.
A Simpleton
3
Behind, in the shadow of the tower, the signalman lay dead.
The Black Box
4
Through the manhole of the enemy craft leaped a signalman, flags in hand.
Dave Darrin After the Mine Layers; Or, Hitting the Enemy a Hard ...
5
Here was the crossing and the dark little house where the signalman lived.
The Bishop and Other Stories
6
He then went to Karazin as signalman and operative in the railway works.
Maxim Gorki
7
Paddy's father had been a stationmaster and signalman in several places.
The Irish Times
8
The officer went out, and hailed the signalman at the mast-head.
A Simpleton
9
I find that the chief signalman, Davis, is as bad as the rest.
The Iron Horse
10
The signalman had his blinker ready to make a recognition signal.
Once there was a war
11
The signalman, passing by again, snatched a rifle and fired just beside me.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
12
The signalman who stops the trains, or lets them pass by?
The Conquest of Bread
13
The train had passed at last, and the signalman lifted the barrier without haste.
The Bishop and Other Stories
14
The British officer comes out of the signalman's house again.
Once there was a war
15
I was aware of a signalman standing nearby crossing himself.
The Last Ship
16
So the signalman cried to the doctor, as he sped by on a message.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
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Translations for signalman
Portuguese
guarda-chaves
Signalman through the time
Signalman across language varieties
United Kingdom
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