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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A railroad-station where trains stop only when a signal is displayed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Railroad) a station at which trains do not stop unless signaled to do so, by a flag hung out or waved.
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“This I cannot vouch for, but I do know that he has often put himself to the inconvenience of standing for hours at some secluded flag station in order to slyly board a train at its foremost end and sneak back to the sleeper to loook for irregularities to report.”
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