gateman
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gateman (plural gatemen)
- A gatekeeper; a person who guards a gate.
- 1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59:
- The cars built before 1913 had clerestory roofs, after the American style, and also were provided with gates and end vestibule platforms requiring gatemen.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 147:
- The carriages - or cars - had gated platforms at the end, where 'gatemen' stood and controlled the flow of passengers on and off the trains in the absence of automatic doors. […] When each gateman had secured his doors and gate, he rang a bell, then the conductor rang his bell as the signal for the driver to set off.