Fireman
['faɪəmən] or ['faɪrmən]
Definition
(noun.) play in which children pretend to put out a fire.
(noun.) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires.
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Definition
(n.) A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
(n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a fireman in your dreams, signifies the constancy of your friends. For a young woman to see a fireman crippled, or meet with an accident otherwise, implies grave danger is threatening a close friend.
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Examples
- Then I approached a station where the fireman always went out to the cowcatcher, opened the oil-cup on the steam-chest, and poured oil in. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I learned afterward that the engineer always shut off steam when the fireman went out to oil. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The fireman hid behind the boiler and the engineer jumped out of the window. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His father had been a fireman in a colliery at Wylam, a village near Newcastle, and there the son George was born on June 9, 1781. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I was about to awaken the fireman to find out the cause of this when it stopped. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She and all the firemen smelled the burned flesh from inside it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- That let all the fumes and chemicals out and overcame the firemen; and there was the devil to pay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The machine also acts as a hose cart and carries a full complement of firemen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He took some bread and meat; and as he drank a draught of beer, heard the firemen, who were from London, talking about the murder. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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