Meaning

(rail transport, dated) Someone who works on a locomotive..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rail transport, dated) Someone who works on a locomotive.
2. (historical) A person in Suriname thought to be a clairvoyant or a sorcerer.

Example Sentences

The evidence which I propose to give will deal with safety and health questions concerning all grades of enginemen, boilermen, and locomen […]

The Lancashire Tradesmen's Association organises craftsmen, semi-skilled and unskilled workmen on the surface other than the manipulators of coal, enginemen, boilermen and locomen; it also organises skilled craftsmen underground, although some craftsmen are organised by the Lancashire Area, which seeks to organise all underground workers including craftsmen.

As an ex-locoman of the steam days between 1954 and 1968, I would like to set right a misconception that is prevalent in some areas of the steam locomotive preservation movement.

The Crescent Road sheds had a favourite locomotive - Stanier 4MT tank engine 42626 (known by Bolton locomen as 'two half-dollars') - and the shed authorities quietly arranged for it to be put to one side for a few days, while the ardent schoolboys set to work cleaning it.

Locomen, prophets who claim clairvoyance, tossed animal bones from magical gourds, reading the scattered patterns to gain a glimpse into tomorrow.

John Gabriel Stedman described Quacy as a locoman, diviner, and sorcerer (rather than an obeah man) who made and sold 'oias or amulets' that made their wearers 'invulnerable'.

Word Forms

• locomen

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