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crossing keeper

crossing keeper noun: a member of railway staff who looks after a level crossing.

crossing keeper: a member of railway staff who looks after a level crossing
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Noun

crossing keeper (plural crossing keepers)

  1. A member of railway staff who looks after a level crossing.
    • All these level crossings have hand-operated gates, and are manned by crossing-keepers.1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619

Forms of crossing keeper

pluralcrossing keepers

Questions about crossing keeper

What does crossing keeper mean?
Crossing keeper means a member of railway staff who looks after a level crossing.
What part of speech is crossing keeper?
Crossing keeper is a noun.
What is the plural of crossing keeper?
The plural of crossing keeper is crossing keepers.

Words near crossing keeper in the dictionary

  1. crosshybridizing
  2. crossin'
  3. crossing
  4. crossing guard
  5. crossing guards
  6. crossing keeper
  7. crossing keepers
  8. crossing loop
  9. crossing loops
  10. crossing my heart and hoping to die
  11. crossing number

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