brakeman
brakeman noun: a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
Noun
brakeman (plural brakemen)
- A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
- A person employed to work the steam engine or other machinery that raises the coal from the mine.
- Cavendish was clearly an extraordinary man, fortunate enough to be born to a family of extraordinary means. If his father had been a brakeman or a miner, one of the greatest scientists in history might have ended up on a ward at the Bethlem Royal Hospital (commonly known as “Bedlam”), enduring the...2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 34
- A person who pulls the brake lever in the sport of bobsleigh.
Synonyms of brakeman
Forms of brakeman
| plural | brakemen |
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Origin of brakeman
From brake + -man.
Questions about brakeman
- What does brakeman mean?
- Brakeman means a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
- What part of speech is brakeman?
- Brakeman is a noun.
- What is the plural of brakeman?
- The plural of brakeman is brakemen.
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