linkman

English edit

link +‎ -man. See link (“torch, light”).

linkman (plural linkmen)

(historical) An adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light.
Synonym: torchbearer
(rugby) A 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.
(broadcasting) A presenter who provides the connecting verbiage between a number of separate items in a broadcast.

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