"signal lad" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "signal lads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "signal lad (plural signal 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": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "en:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 August, G. M. Kichenside, “Resignalling for the Kent Coast electrification—Phase II”, in Modern Railways, page 113, photo caption",
          "text": "Signal lads are employed at the panel-operated boxes to record train times. A small replica of the track diagram with simplified track circuit indications and the general circuit telephone concentrators are incorporated in their desk, as here at Tonbridge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A young man employed in a signalbox to record the times of trains as they pass through the area served by the signalbox."
      ],
      "id": "en-signal_lad-en-noun-Vy4gVPSw",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "signalbox",
          "signalbox"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, UK) A young man employed in a signalbox to record the times of trains as they pass through the area served by the signalbox."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "booking lad"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "signal lad"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "signal lads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "signal lad (plural signal lads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Occupations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 August, G. M. Kichenside, “Resignalling for the Kent Coast electrification—Phase II”, in Modern Railways, page 113, photo caption",
          "text": "Signal lads are employed at the panel-operated boxes to record train times. A small replica of the track diagram with simplified track circuit indications and the general circuit telephone concentrators are incorporated in their desk, as here at Tonbridge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A young man employed in a signalbox to record the times of trains as they pass through the area served by the signalbox."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "signalbox",
          "signalbox"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, UK) A young man employed in a signalbox to record the times of trains as they pass through the area served by the signalbox."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "booking lad"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "signal lad"
}