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motorman
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Word definitions for motorman in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated English) A man who controls a motor. 2 A person who operates a motor vehicle. 3 (cx India English) A train driver.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motorman \Mo"tor*man\, n. A man who controls a motor. [archaic] an operator of a motor vehicle, especially of a streetcar or subway train.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
See Operation Motorman for the British Army operation in Northern Ireland A motorman is the title for a person who operates an electrified trolley car, tram , light rail , or rapid transit train. The term refers to the person who is in charge of the motor ...
Usage examples of motorman.
The motorman yells and throws himself on the brakes like a football player.
Hundreds of the excited mob press close to the cowering motorman, whose hand is observed to tremble perceptibly as he transfers a stick of pepsin gum from his pocket to his mouth.
The motorman and the conductor had not been home since the morning of the 4th.
As soon as he saw the motorman pitched into the gutter, Merriwell moved toward the carriage.
I think the motorman simply found the hansom unmanageable, for some reason.
The motorman of the trolley car had neglected his duty and joined a gaping crowd at a corner.
An inspector from the transit authority arrived to question the motorman, whom the police already had in hand, of course.
The motorman set his teeth hard, and rang the gong loudly, insistently.
The motorman stood with his hand on the lever, ready to start the car the moment the track should be clear.
Carrots, with a pack of street Arabs at his heels, jeered at the new motorman, climbing up on the car and taunting him, until, at last, his patience was exhausted, and he suddenly lifted his foot and kicked one of the boys off the car.
They tried to drag the motorman off, in spite of the guards, they smashed the car windows, they tore out the cushions, they beat the policemen, and wrenched their clubs out of their hands.
Evidently they had not noticed the dangerous position of the carriage, and now the motorman started the car forward.
The police, now seeing the danger, forced the furious motorman to stop the car until the crowd had had time to fall back and the carriage had safely crossed the track.
And, almost at once, in the doorway of the partition appeared a streetcar motorman in blue jacket and hat.
The motorman, thrown forward, pugnosed, on the guidewheel, yells as he slides past over chains and keys.