Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
whistling-board .
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Examples
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He raced a passenger train from the mile whistling-post to the crossing, made the turn and crossed the track with the white finger of the headlight bathing the Ford blindingly.
The Trail of the White Mule B. M. Bower 1905
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