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brakesmen

brakesmen is the plural of brakesman.

Meaning of brakesman

Noun

brakesman (plural brakesmen)

  1. Someone who operates the winch in a mine.
  2. 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

Questions about brakesmen

What is brakesmen the plural of?
Brakesmen is the plural of brakesman.

Words near brakesmen in the dictionary

  1. brakes
  2. brakeset
  3. brakeshoe
  4. brakeshoes
  5. brakesman
  6. brakesmen
  7. brakest
  8. brakevan
  9. brakevans
  10. brakewheel
  11. brakewheels

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