Fromlink +‎-man. Seelink(“torch, light”).

linkman (plurallinkmen)

1. (historical) An adultlinkboy; one bearing a torch or light.

   Synonym:torchbearer

2. (rugby) A player who usesspeed anddexterity to keep an attacking team's downfield progress fluid.
3. Aman who acts as alink orconnection.
   • 1997, Girja Kumar,The book on trial: fundamentalism and censorship in India, page115:

     Sajjad Zaheer was thelinkman with the literary community on behalf of the nascent communist movement of India.

4. (broadcasting) Apresenter who provides the connecting verbiage between a number of separateitems in abroadcast.

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

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