Crossword-Solution: POINTSMAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pointsman | n. | A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “POINTSMAN”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Traffic policeman in London. | 1 answer |
| person who operates railway points | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
waters; to pour out sand or dust.
Hint 2 anagram
RPUO
Hint 3 another clue
Stream
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Sentences with POINTSMAN (5)
All manner of cross-lines of rails came zig-zagging into it, like a Congress of iron vipers; and, a little way out of it, a pointsman in an elevated signal-box was constantly going through the motions of drawing immense quantities of beer at a public-house bar.
The pointsman aloft in the signal-box made the motions of drawing, with some difficulty, hogsheads of beer.
Late in the same night, a pointsman, walking along the railway a little distance out of the town, came upon the body of a woman, train-crushed, horrible to view.
Whilst each returned to her place and the carriage filled once more, Marie listened to her father, who had come back delighted with his stroll to a pointsman’s little house beyond the station, whence a really pleasant stretch of landscape could be discerned.
The great intellectual pointsman of our age--the man who has done more than any other of this generation to give direction to the thought of his contemporaries--has passed away; and we are left to measure the loss to humanity by the result of his labors.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1959).