gate-tender

Uncle Jed Burks, uncle by courtesy, was a boarder by day and a gate-tender by night at the signal tower at the railroad crossing.

Calvary Alley Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

There on the floor, lying just as he had fallen, was the old gate-tender, his unseeing eyes staring up into the semi-darkness.

Calvary Alley Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

This horse was to be turned outside -- and the gate-tender swung open the barrier to let it through.

Skyrider B. M. Bower 1905

a certain suburban train for nearly two years and a half, he always heaved a sigh of relief when the gate-tender told him he was taking the right train for Tarrytown.

What's-His-Name George Barr McCutcheon 1897