Brakeman
['breɪkmən] or ['brekmən]
Definition
(n.) A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
(n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
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Examples
- Mackenzie, playing with the gravel on the main track along which the car without a brakeman was rapidly approaching. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The brakeman said, Dad seemed to take your going sort of hard, Bob. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- One great source of accidents in this respect has been due to the necessity of the brakemen entering between the cars while they are in motion to couple them by hand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the latest system of railroading greater attention has been paid to the lives and limbs of those employed as workmen on the trains, especially to those of brakemen. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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