engineman
English
Etymology
engine + -man
Noun
engineman (plural enginemen)
- A man who operates or manages an engine.
- 1879, John Sutherland Sinclair, Earl of Caithness, Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects:
- The engineman having only to turn two cocks, so as to connect the steam with the one or the other vessel."
- 1901, M.P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud:
- It was only when I sat, an hour later, disgustedly reflecting on this incident, that I remembered that there was always some 'hand-working' of the engine during the cage-descents, an engineman reversing the action by a handle at every stroke of the piston, to prevent bumping.
- 1911, Anonymous, The Traveling Engineers' Association:
- As an aid to this end, and that the railroad companies may derive the highest efficiency from the man employed as a locomotive engineman, a code of questions is given him, and it is expected that the preparation necessary to correctly answer the questions will indicate how well he has progressed.
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Anagrams
- man engine