danger-signal

A form of danger signal — A signal set at danger and showing a red light or other stop indication, which a train driver must not pass until it changes or until manually cleared past the signal by a dispatcher.

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Meanings

noundanger-signal (plural danger-signals)

plural danger-signals

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of danger signal.

    The "chook chook chook," being, I think, the danger-signal to the young, to hide themselves[…]

    1899, Edmund Selous, An Observational Diary of the Habits of Nightjars, The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 3, page 505
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