numbertaker

noun

noun

Etymology From number + taker, or number + take + -er.

A person employed to note down numbers, in particular on railways where fleet numbers of wagons were recorded.

Step 2—Porter Grade 1, Goods Shunter Class 4, Shunt Horse Driver, Numbertaker, Traffic Timekeeper, etc.1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 205:

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