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latchmen

latchmen is the plural of latchman.

Meaning of latchman

Noun

latchman (plural latchmen)

  1. (historical) A person employed to run in front of a locomotive and open the latch to turn it into a siding for trams to pass.

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Questions about latchmen

What is latchmen the plural of?
Latchmen is the plural of latchman.

Words near latchmen in the dictionary

  1. latchkeys
  2. latchless
  3. Latchley
  4. latchman
  5. Latchmans
  6. latchmen
  7. latchpan
  8. latchpans
  9. latchstring
  10. latchstrings
  11. latchup

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Adapted from Wiktionary: latchmen (page history and authors); latchman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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