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English
Etymology
From points + man.
Noun
pointsman (plural pointsmen)
- (rail transport) A man in charge of railroad points or switches.
2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 57:At their point of origin, constructing these boxes presented railway companies with an attractive proposition: to remove the need for pointsmen and flagmen operating at several ground-level locations around a railway site by housing one or two men in a signal structure.
Translations
a man in charge of railroad points or switches
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