| 单词 | switch-tender |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswitch-tender switch-tender n. a man who attends to a set of switches on a railway, a switchman, pointsman. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > one in charge of points switchman1843 pointsman1845 switch-tender1853 pointswoman1865 point man1945 1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. July 34/2 We went roaring, rushing, screaming, up the valley of the Susquehanna, occasionally passing a switch-tender with his white lights. 1870 E. E. Hale Ten Times One i. (Cent. Dict.) Her husband, who is now switch-tender, lost his arm in the great smash-up. < as lemmas |
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