"booking lad" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "booking lads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "booking lad (plural booking lads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "en:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 320",
          "text": "This will provide a permanent automatic record of all train movements in the area of each box and eliminate the manual recording at present done by booking lads.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A young male employee in a signal box who records the movement of trains past the box."
      ],
      "id": "en-booking_lad-en-noun-fiiTxHIS",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "signal box",
          "signal box"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, dated, British) A young male employee in a signal box who records the movement of trains past the box."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "signal lad"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "booking lad"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "booking lads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "booking lad (plural booking lads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Occupations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 320",
          "text": "This will provide a permanent automatic record of all train movements in the area of each box and eliminate the manual recording at present done by booking lads.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A young male employee in a signal box who records the movement of trains past the box."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "signal box",
          "signal box"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, dated, British) A young male employee in a signal box who records the movement of trains past the box."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "signal lad"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "booking lad"
}