Word Meanings - BLOCKSIGNAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.

• Oftenness
  Frequency.
• Openness
  The quality or state of being open.
• Switched
  of Switch
• Systematizer
  One who systematizes.
• BLOCKSYSTEM
  A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has l
• Blockish
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
• OPENHEARTHSTEEL
  See under Open.
• Closeness
  The state of being close.
• Coupler
  One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars.
• Couplet
  Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
• Oftensith
  Frequently; often.
• Openwork
  Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.
• Switching
  of Switch
• Systematology
  The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems.
• BLOCKTIN
  See under Tin.
• Blocklike
  Like a block; stupid.
• OPENMOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• Oftentide
  Frequently; often.

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