brakesman
brakesman noun: someone who operates the winch in a mine.
Noun
brakesman (plural brakesmen)
- Someone who operates the winch in a mine.
- A brakeman; a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
- Leisurely we moved forward--reached the head of the train--then Andrews, Brown our engineer, and Knight, who also could run an engine, leaped on the locomotive; Alfred Wilson took the top of the cars as brakesman, and the remainder of us clambered into the foremost baggage car, which, with two...1863, William Pittenger, Daring and Suffering
- And some time after becoming naturalized, in one of his letters, he wrote that he was a brakesman on the Great Western R.R., (in Canada--promoted from the U.G.R.R.,) the result of being under the protection of the British Lion.1872, William Still, The Underground Railroad
brakesman meaning in Tamil
brakesman in Tamil
- கண்காணியர்
Forms of brakesman
| plural | brakesmen |
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Origin of brakesman
From brake + -s- + -man.
Questions about brakesman
- What does brakesman mean?
- Brakesman means someone who operates the winch in a mine.
- What is brakesman in Tamil?
- Brakesman in Tamil is கண்காணியர். See Brakesman meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is brakesman?
- Brakesman is a noun.
- What is the plural of brakesman?
- The plural of brakesman is brakesmen.
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