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Railway employee adapted to steam-trains
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station master
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The station master (or stationmaster ) was the person in charge of railway stations , in the United Kingdom and many other countries, before the modern age. He would manage the other station employees and would have responsibility for safety and the efficient ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Station \Sta"tion\ (st[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [F., fr. L. statio, from stare, statum, to stand. See Stand .] The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. [R.] A station like the herald, Mercury. --Shak. Their manner was to stand at prayer, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Alas, the station master at Ripon spoiled the plan. ▪ It had a station house and station master . ▪ The station master is wearing a hat shaped like a cucumber. ▪ The women complained to the station master - and Knowles was taken ...
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A stream of equations, fed from a source a thousand and more light-years from them, was fed into the station master controller, which accepted them with the speed of thought and sent an acknowledgment.