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Definition of Semaphored
1. semaphore [v] - See also: semaphore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semaphored
Literary usage of Semaphored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Minor Tactics, 1915 by Ernest Darius Scott (1918)
"11:30 am At 11:30 am, he semaphored Company F: Guns withdraw; and three minutes
later he signalled: To the Rear, to Companies F and G. Company F moved ..."
2. With the Russians in Peace and War: Recollections of a Military Attaché by Frederick Arthur Wellesley (1905)
"As soon therefore as he arrived at Moscow, Greig semaphored to St. Petersburg to
say that an aide-decamp was starting by train with news from the seat of ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"... vigorously waved arms he semaphored to the brakemen to close in upon the
jackanapes. Soon «en were moving along the run- nd hopping from car to car. ..."
4. Bull Run: Its Strategy and Tatics by Robert Matteson Johnston (1913)
"This he immediately reported to Beauregard, while he semaphored to Evans: " Look
out for your left, you are turned." l Almost simultaneously with this ..."
5. The Giant Hand: Our Mobilization and Control of Industry and Natural by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"The commander of the armed guard, William O'Brien, thereupon semaphored to the
cargo transport Hawaiian to broadcast an SOS for the Lucia. ..."
6. Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift of Books: Pamphlets and Periodicals in the by Latimer Clark, Schuyler Skaats Wheeler, Andrew Carnegie, Michael Francis O'Reilly (1909)
"... lines how efficiently his mechanical telegraph worked when the result of the
battle of Salamanca (July 22, 1812) was semaphored from Plymouth to London, ..."
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