yardmaster

[yahrd-mas-ter, -mah-ster]

noun

1. a person who superintends all or part of a railroad yard.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yardmaster¹

First recorded in 1870–75; yard ² + master

Example Sentences

Hudson’s grandfather was a yardmaster for the Milwaukee Road and his uncles were also “railroad guys,” he said.

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His father was a yardmaster for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; his mother was a saleswoman and later a social worker.

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It is hard for a railroad man to realize that a couple of silver bars have changed a yardmaster into a captain.

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Ralph ran up to the yardmaster and held out his watch to him.

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Dougherty, the yardmaster, took the bank roll I slipped him, all right enough, and promised to help out.

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