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Webster 1913 Edition

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(lĭṉk′boiˊ)

(lĭṉk′măn)

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Noun.

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A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.

Noun.

A boy or man that carries a link or torch to light passengers.

linkman ‎(plural linkmen)

adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light
(rugby) Player who uses speed and dexterity to keep an attacking team's downfield progress fluid.
A man who acts as a link or connection.
- 1997, Girja Kumar, The book on trial: fundamentalism and censorship in India (page 115)
  Sajjad Zaheer was the linkman with the literary community on behalf of the nascent communist movement of India.

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967