brakesman

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brakesman

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From brake + -s- + -man.

noun brakesmen

Someone who operates the winch in a mine.
A brakeman; a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc. Leisurely we moved forward--reached the head of the train--then Andrews, Brown our engineer, and Knight, who also could run an engine, leaped on the locomotive; Alfred Wilson took the top of the cars as brakesman, and the remainder of us clambered into the foremost baggage car, which, with two other

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@misc{brakesman_2026,
  title = {brakesman},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brakesman},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}