Brakesman

Quick meaning: Brakesman is a noun meaning Someone who operates the winch in a mine.

Meaning

Someone who operates the winch in a mine.

More Meanings

1. A brakeman; a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.

Example Sentences

When the trains meet, the points of the loop are operated from the lineside by the trainmen or brakesmen specially carried for this job.

[...] their speed (which was not supposed to exceed 10 m.p.h. normally, and less when the train was heavy or the weather was bad) was regulated by brakesmen known as "bank-riders."

The young man on the ranch later said he was tenant in charge of the place for Mitchell Robertson, who owned it, but who was then working on the train as a brakesman out of Calgary.

And some time after becoming naturalized, in one of his letters, he wrote that he was a brakesman on the Great Western R.R., (in Canada--promoted from the U.G.R.R.,) the result of being under the protection of the British Lion.

Word Forms

• brakesmen

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brakeman, breakman, banksman, hoistman, skipman, winzeman.

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