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Definition of Gateman
1. n. A gate keeper; a gate tender.
Definition of Gateman
1. Noun. a gate keeper ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gateman
1. a person in charge of a gate [n GATEMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gateman
Literary usage of Gateman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1900)
"His distance from the rail to the point where he stopped is not definitely defined
by the testimony, but it is certain that the gateman regarded his ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1894)
"A railroad company may, for its protection, enforce a rule requiring passengers
to exhibit their tickets to a gateman in passing to a train, and the latter ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1892)
"7; that he at the same time showed the gateman a ticket for a single passage ...
8 left at ten o'clock, asked the gateman whether that train did not stop at ..."
4. The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland Practically Described and Illustrated by Francis Whishaw (1842)
"Every gateman or policeman shall light his gate or station-lamp at dusk, and
shall have his hand-lamp constantly trimmed and burning, and ready to give such ..."
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