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How to pronounce signalman in English?

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Type of railroad man, railroader, railway man, railwayman, signaler, signaller, trainman

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He was a signalman on the USS Solace, a hospital ship docked at Pearl Harbor.
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The message was in French and the American signalman could not understand it.
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A signalman tells a stranger a disturbing story of haunting and premonition.
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From 1949 to 1952, Reichart was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a signalman.
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Terrell helped keep a turret supplied with ammo and served as a signalman.
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Communications and Information Services privates are known as signalman or signalwoman.
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He was a Navy signalman and received an honorable discharge in 2002.
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Located in the signal box, the levers are operated by the signalman.
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Patricia Herbert was born in Oxford, Mass., the daughter of a teacher and a railroad signalman.
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More examples
  • A railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard
  • Signalman is a fictional supervillain published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Batman vol. 1 #112 (December 1957), and was created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff.
  • A signalman or signaller is an employee of a railway transport network who operates the points and signals from a signal box in order to control the movement of trains.
  • Signalman is a military rank similar to that of Private (rank), but is used within units that specialize in communication. See Signaller for more about the roles of Signalmen.
  • The Signal-Man is a short story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the "Mugby Junction" collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.
  • The man who controls the signals and authorizes the movements of trains on running lines
  • An employee in charge of an interlocking.
  • A person who signals or who works with signals. A member of the ground crew who communicates with the pilot by means of arm-and-hand signals