brakesman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Here come the train slowly backing down, the brakesman a swinging lanterns, and the passengers all swarming onto the platforms.
From Hoosier Mosaics by Thompson, Maurice
A few gathered around us—the fireman, engineer, brakesman, and conductor of the train, with the passengers.
From To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Moody, Dwight Lyman
The writer occupied the humble post of brakesman - elected thereto in all humility by an overpowering majority.
From Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Merriman, Henry Seton
The requirements of the work at night are such, that the brakesman has a good deal of spare time on his hands, which he is at liberty to employ in his own way.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
Not long after he began to work at Black Callerton as brakesman, he had a quarrel with a pitman named Ned Nelson, a roistering bully, who was the terror of the village.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
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