Crossword clues for brakeman
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. 1 (context US English) A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc 2 A person who pulls the brake lever in the sport of bobsleigh
WordNet
n. a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes
Wikipedia
A brakeman is a rail transport worker whose original job was to assist the braking of a train by applying brakes on individual wagons. The advent of through brakes on trains made this role redundant, although the name lives on in the United States where brakemen carry out a variety of functions both on the track and within trains.
Usage examples of "brakeman".
Agent Brakeman wiped the tip of his dusty finger on the backside of his knee.
Glancing around, Agent Brakeman reached under the body of the machine, inserting his forefinger in a concealed whorl lock.
I told Brakeman it was too goofy an ambush to work, but he swore by it.
She, whose heart cried out for the distinction of train-boy, conductor, engineer, brakeman, or fireman, in the order named, had been forced into the only degrading post in the game--a mere passenger without voice or office in those delicate feats of administration.
I sent you to school you would still be helping, maybe more than if I make you a brakeman right now.
On the roof of one of the center cars, a brakeman stood wide-legged on the flat catwalk.
When he darted back to the fallen body of the brakeman, the box car which the thieves intended to steal was now a complete unit in itself, broken front and rear from the two halves of the long train.
But no brakeman disturbed him on that jolting journey deep into the marshy shore line where Connecticut paralleled the Sound.
He was in the last place a brakeman would be apt to search for a stowaway.
His purpose was to be discovered by the fake brakeman who was now advancing stealthily toward him.
The brakeman who climbed over the rear railing noticed nothing as he swung his lantern over the right side of the platform for an increase in speed.
The brakeman dropped to his knees to support the gory victim, and shouted for the porter.
Meanwhile the observation-car porter and the brakeman had been having trouble keeping curious passengers out of the car.
The fake brakeman, the pretended salesman, were the pair who held him at bay.
Harry could see the green work engine nose to nose with the freight car, its engineer and brakeman with their backs to them, working at the couplings.