"hand-signal" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Verbal form of the noun hand signal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hand-signals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signalling",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signaling",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signalled",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signalled",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signaled",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signaled",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++",
        "past2": "hand-signaled",
        "past2_qual": "US",
        "past_qual": "UK",
        "pres_ptc2": "hand-signaling",
        "pres_ptc2_qual": "US",
        "pres_ptc_qual": "UK"
      },
      "expansion": "hand-signal (third-person singular simple present hand-signals, present participle (UK) hand-signalling or (US) hand-signaling, simple past and past participle (UK) hand-signalled or (US) hand-signaled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1953 November, John Bourne, “The Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744:",
          "text": "Before the train passed over any of the level crossings on the branch, it came to a stand, and the guard went forward and hand-signalled it over.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To signal by hand."
      ],
      "id": "en-hand-signal-en-verb-yK3gK2Yc",
      "links": [
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "by hand",
          "by hand"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hand-signal"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Verbal form of the noun hand signal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hand-signals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signalling",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signaling",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signalled",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signalled",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signaled",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hand-signaled",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++",
        "past2": "hand-signaled",
        "past2_qual": "US",
        "past_qual": "UK",
        "pres_ptc2": "hand-signaling",
        "pres_ptc2_qual": "US",
        "pres_ptc_qual": "UK"
      },
      "expansion": "hand-signal (third-person singular simple present hand-signals, present participle (UK) hand-signalling or (US) hand-signaling, simple past and past participle (UK) hand-signalled or (US) hand-signaled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1953 November, John Bourne, “The Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744:",
          "text": "Before the train passed over any of the level crossings on the branch, it came to a stand, and the guard went forward and hand-signalled it over.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To signal by hand."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "signal",
          "signal"
        ],
        [
          "by hand",
          "by hand"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hand-signal"
}