Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A signal-lamp attached to fixed targets or semaphore signals.
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Examples
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Too many side tracks; every switch wide open all the time, switchman sound asleep and the target-lamp dead out.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887
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