brakesman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Discovering no signs of him, he grew anxious, and questioned the brakesman.
From Terry's Trials and Triumphs by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley
The steward, in unusual radiance, came in presently, and sang a long song concerning a tramp who was flung off a freight train by a brakesman.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
After working for several years more as a brakesman at the Willington machine, George Stephenson was induced to leave his situation there for a similar one at the West Moor Colliery, Killingworth.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
Stephenson was again taken on as a brakesman at the p. 40West Moor Pit.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles
I've been brakesman, and freightman, and, after that, freight agent.
From Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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