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A member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
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fireman
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n. play in which children take the roles of firemen and pretend to put out a fire a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) [syn: stoker ] a pitcher who does not start the game [syn: reliever , relief pitcher ] a member of a fire ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fire-man , late 14c., "tender of a fire," from fire (n.) + man (n.). From 1650s as "furnace-tender" of a early steam engine. As "person hired to put out (rather than tend) fires" it is attested from 1714. For "stoker," Old English had fyrbeta .
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A fireman is a male firefighter. Fireman or Firemen may also refer to:
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There were truck-weighers, coal tram-weighers, engineers, stokers, tenders, strikers, lampmen, cogmen, banksmiths, rubbish-tippers, greasers, screeners, trimmers, labourers, small-coal pickers, doorboys, hitchers, hauliers, firemen .
Firemen, brought in by the same aircraft evacuating patients, clatter down the stairs with their equipment.
But for the past year, thanks to a fund- organized by the Society for Public Improvement, of which Juvenal Urbino was honorary president, there was a corps of professional firemen and a water truck with a siren and a bell and two high-pressure hoses.
In fact, the due process clause does not prohibit a State from excluding from the jury certain occupational groups such as lawyers, preachers, doctors, dentists, and enginemen and firemen of railroad trains.
Certain occupational groups, such as lawyers, preachers, ministers, doctors, dentists, and engineers and firemen of railroad trains may be excluded from jury service.
A second fireman lay face-down further down the roof of the pumper, obviously exhausted.
So Raed waited, watching the fireman atop the pumper truck hose down flames licking out of a crushed-accordion section of one of the fallen towers, and wondering whether he was seeing something that might be real, might be true: had the two men on Tower Pumper Truck No.
The woman stepped right up onto the pumper, reached the fireman lying prone on the roof before her and was so overcome she crouched down beside the man, and abruptly embraced him.
Besides serving to re-enforce the other two divisions when absolutely necessary, it is also to re-enforce either the Firemen or the Pumpmen in cases of need.
Those for Firemen, Sail-trimmers, and Pumpmen to have each a frog for the battle-axe.
North Runny firemen were full of themselves because with the help of Julius and Napoleon Rife they had recently bought a fire truck with a seventy-five-foot ladder.
It was volunteer firemen, working round a small clump of houses between the village and Vila Nova.
Hugh Wegges, our fireman, has costumed them in red with pointed tails and tiny horns, but it is all in jest.
I mean the firemen of our great cities, than whom there are no steadier, braver, nobler-hearted men.
Through contacts he found his niche in the litigation marketplace as a fireman.