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brakemen

brakemen is the plural of brakeman.

Meaning of brakeman

Noun

brakeman (plural brakemen)

  1. (US) A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
  2. (historical) 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
  3. A person who pulls the brake lever in the sport of bobsleigh.

Questions about brakemen

What is brakemen the plural of?
Brakemen is the plural of brakeman.

Words near brakemen in the dictionary

  1. brakeload
  2. brakeloads
  3. brakemaker
  4. brakemakers
  5. brakeman
  6. brakemen
  7. braken
  8. brakeperson
  9. brakepipe
  10. brakepipes
  11. braker

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