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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB take ▪ It took firemen nearly two hours to cut eight passengers free. ▪ It took firemen wearing breathing apparatus nearly two hours to bring the blaze under control. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I wanted to be a fireman ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fireman \Fire"man\, n.; pl. Firemen (-men). A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company. A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fireman or stoker is the job title for someone whose job is to tend the fire for the running of a steam engine . On steam locomotives the term fireman is usually used, while on steamships and stationary steam engines, such as those driving saw mills , the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context firefighting English) Someone (implied male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire. 2 (context rail transport English) A man who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ...
Usage examples of fireman.
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.