Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A switch which automatically returns to its normal position after being moved to shift a train to a siding.
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Examples
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He switched on current to the apparatus at the main switch and pulled over the safety-switch.
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"Wouldn't Adair be a good safety-switch to throw in front of Mr. North and MacMorrogh in New York?"
Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893
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TAV Engineering, a Surrey-based company, designed a crucial safety-switch that should have alerted staff at the site that an oil tanker was over-flowing but failed.
Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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TAV Engineering, a Surrey-based company, designed a crucial safety-switch that should have alerted staff at the site that an oil tanker was over-flowing but failed.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2010
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