FLAGGER

Domain	Definition
Mining	In bituminous coal mining, a laborer who attaches a flag to the rear car of a loaded train of cars (if the flag is missing at end of a haulage trip, it denotes that the train has lost one or more cars, and allmotormen are warned). Also called flagman. (references)
Occupations	Controls movement of vehicular traffic through construction projects: Discusses traffic routing plans, and type and location of control points with superior. Distributes traffic control signs and markers along site in designated pattern. Directs movement of traffic through site, using sign, hand, and flag signals. Warns construction workers when approaching vehicle fails to heed signals to prevent accident and injury to workers. Informs drivers of detour routes through construction sites. Records license number of traffic control violators for police. May give hand marker to last driver in line up of one-way traffic for FLAGGER (construction) at opposite end of site, signaling clearance for reverse flow of traffic. (references)
	Signals with checkered flag when first race horse crosses starting line after release from starting gate to notify racing timer when to start timing race. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: FLAGGER

Derivations: FLAGGER

Anagrams: FLAGGER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-g-l-r"
	-1 letter: gargle, lagger, raggle.
	-2 letters: agger, argle, eggar, farle, feral, flare, gager, glare, lager, large, regal.
	-3 letters: ager, alef, earl, egal, fare, farl, feal, fear, flag, flea, frae, frag, gage, gale, gear, gleg, leaf, lear, rage, rale, real.
	-4 letters: age, ale, are, arf, ear, egg, elf, era, erg, fag, far, fer, gae, gag, gal, gar.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-g-l-r"
	+1 letter: flaggers, flaggier.
	+4 letters: filagreeing, leapfrogged.
	+5 letters: deflagrating, leapfrogging, lifeguarding.
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Alternative Orthography: FLAGGER

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

HTML Code (1990) (references)

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
flagger	76
flagger training	3
certification flagger	3
flagger job	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: FLAGGER

Derivations
	Words beginning with "FLAGGER": flaggers. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).