flagman
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He was working as a flagman near Zabriskie Point, where road repairs require traffic control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
If the one-lane construction zone was too long for the flagmen to see each other, one handed a flag to the last driver permitted through to give to the other flagman.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
“In the beginning,” said Denzel Matthys, the flock flagman, “they’d run inside the garden and destroy all the vegetables.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2016
After adjusting the cap pistol strapped to his hip, he took a whirling cut that brought to mind a finish-line flagman or a revolving lawn sprinkler.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 25, 2016
As War Admiral walked to the line alongside the flagman and starter Cassidy, Woolf worked to fray the Triple Crown winner’s famously delicate nerves.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Current safety guidelines rely on communications and shared information between operators, rail operations controllers and, sometimes, flagmen posted on station platforms ahead of a work zone.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
The current warning system is built on communication between controllers, operators and often flagmen.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023
If the one-lane construction zone was too long for the flagmen to see each other, one handed a flag to the last driver permitted through to give to the other flagman.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
In the night-time the flagmen shall immediately place a lighted red fusee in center of track about five hundred feet behind the rear of train.
From Railroad Accidents Their Cause and Prevention by Richards, R. C.
Visions of damage suits and summary discharges may have drifted through their minds, for extra freights were supposed to send flagmen to the crossing to warn all traffic of the train’s approach.
From The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Burnham, Margaret
