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pointsmen¹ | Pointsman: A man who has charge of the points* on a railway. The term was later occasionally employed to refer to a signalman. (e.g. bar565 Only a Pointsman) * A pair of tapering movable rails forming a junction at which railway vehicles are directed from one set of rails to another; the junction as a whole [OED]. 102, 300, 565, 746
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