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Definition of Station keeper
1. Noun. The police sergeant on duty in a police station.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Station Keeper
Literary usage of Station keeper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1898)
"If the station-keeper wishes to be dishonest he has every opportunity to be so,
and the only way out of it, it seems to me, is to change the location of the ..."
2. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"The latter would not, from a sense of decency; the former would not, because he
did not choose to encourage the advances of a station-keeper. ..."
3. "The Cannoneer.": Recollections of Service in the Army of the Potomac by Augustus Buell (1890)
"The station keeper awhile before this had killed one of their number, ... One of
our men had in the meantime cut the station keeper loose, ..."
4. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases in the by Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson (1883)
"A railway station keeper assaulted a passenger for not leaving the waiting- room
... McKay was station keeper, and the assault originated in an altercation ..."
5. Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American Library by General Meeting, American Library Association (1898)
"If the station-keeper wishes to be dishonest he has every opportunity to be so,
and the only way out of it, it seems to me, is to change the location of the ..."
6. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"By the door of the station-keeper's den, outside, was a tin wash-basin, on the
ground. Near it was a pail of water and a piece of yellow bar-soap, ..."
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