brakesman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When I was a brakesman at Killingworth, I learnt the art of embroidery while working the pitmen’s buttonholes by the engine fire at nights.”
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
"Jump on, ye loon!" he yelled to the brakesman standing by the open switch.
From The Return of Blue Pete by Allan, Luke
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
To this place Stephenson first came as a brakesman about the beginning of 1805.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
That was the road she took, before my eyes, under the most comfortable conditions, in an electric trolley driven by a brakesman.
From The Woman of Mystery by Leblanc, Maurice
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