Crossword clues for brakemen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brakeman \Brake"man\ (br[=a]k"man), n.; pl. Brakemen (br[=a]k"men).
(Railroads) A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
(Mining) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of brakeman English)
Usage examples of "brakemen".
When he was not hitting the door, the man was whirling and striking at something invisible to the near-by brakemen.
But the brakemen, still beside the watchman’s body, had quit looking at the twisted face.
Important brakemen proceeded rapidly along the aisles, and when they swung open the doors, a polar wind circled the legs of the passengers.
He had been sentenced, he thought, to a penal servitude of the heart, as he watched the dusky, vague ribbons of smoke come from the lamps and felt to his knees the cold winds from the brakemen's busy flights.
But Trevithick, pointing with his left hand, counted four bodies, and one of his brakemen added, "Pat Bailey and One-eye Jim is dead but we can't find 'em nowheres.
Preen Chand knew some of his brakemen were swearing becau the buffalo were out of rifle range.
The brakemen had to run hard to catch up to the train with their booty.
The brakemen accepted his decision without argument as he would have taken their word over anything concerning the waggons.
Most of the brakemen had ridden elephants before, but not under circumstances like these.
The Union of Railway Conductors and Brakemen was demanding that the length of all freight trains on the John Galt Line be reduced to sixty cars.
Muttering that all his brakemen seemed to consider him "easy," Ray went down to his car alone.
Ray found that his brakemen were likely to have what he termed "a taste for the nude in art," and Giddy was no exception.
The brakemen out on their box-cars, the miners up in their diggings, the lonely homesteaders in the sand hills of Yucca and Kit Carson Counties, begin to think of Denver, muffled in snow, full of food and drink and good cheer, and to yearn for her with that admiration which makes her, more than other American cities, an object of sentiment.
Longarm and more easygoing brakemen were inclined to feel sorry for 'bos and tolerate the ones who refrained from crime, vandalism, and shitting inside the rolling stock.
Longarm asked if the stage line the brakemen had advised him to catch at Wendover was the same one running down the Bozeman Trail from the northern gold fields.