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crossing keepers

crossing keepers is the plural of crossing keeper.

Meaning of crossing keeper

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

Questions about crossing keepers

What is crossing keepers the plural of?
Crossing keepers is the plural of crossing keeper.

Words near crossing keepers in the dictionary

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

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