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  • noun Plural form of pointsman.

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Examples

  • Mr. Harding thought that all porters and stokers, guards, brakesmen, and pointsmen ought to have an opportunity of going to church, and he hoped that they all had.

    Barchester Towers 2004

  • "We have pointsmen at various locations along the route and when the marchers reach an intersection the pointsmen will stop traffic long enough for them to pass," Henderson said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Intelligent non-commissioned officers and men were converted into shunters, guards, and pointsmen.

    The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919

  • Mr. Harding thought that all porters and stokers, guards and pointsmen ought to have an opportunity of going to church, and he hoped that they all had.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

  • Some people are so like eternal pointsmen lying in wait by the line, to shunt one's train of thought from one rail to another.

    The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1901

  • Only on these conditions can a railway manager be sure that his pointsmen are on the job.

    The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • Shunting is sometimes a tedious process, involving much hauling, pushing, puffing, and whistling, on the part of the engine, and uncoupling of trucks and shifting of points on the part of pointsmen and porters.

    The Iron Horse 1859

  • Then, at all the junctions, sidings, and crossings, pointsmen are stationed, with definite instructions as to the duties to be performed by them.

    Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Mr. Harding thought that all porters and stokers, guards, brakesmen, and pointsmen ought to have an opportunity of going to church, and he hoped that they all had.

    Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Traffic lights not working at the Maraisburg Road Interchange - pointsmen on duty Here are the winning Lotto numbers from the Saturday, February 13 draw.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

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