linkman

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

linkman (plural linkmen)

1. adult linkboy; one bearing a torch or light
2. (rugby) Player who uses speed and dexterity to keep an attacking team's downfield progress fluid.
3. 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.

• torchbearer

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