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Engineman   Listen
noun
Engineman  n.  (pl. enginemen)  A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Engineman" Quotes from Famous Books



... to keep barely within the contract limits on clearance widths, and once the Nadia, sagging mountainward on the roughly leveled track at the wrong moment, touched one of the out-hanging rocks in passing. Hector heard the touch, and so did Ford; but it was the engineman who made a grim jest upon it, saying: "If she does that more'n once or twice, there'll be a job for the car painters, don't you reckon, Mr. Ford? And for ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde

... steam. The latter consists of a throttle valve, twelve inches in diameter, and an eduction valve eighteen inches in diameter, the maneuvering of which is done by means of rods extending down to a platform upon which the engineman stands. This platform is so situated that all orders can be distinctly heard by the engineman, and so that he shall be protected from the heat radiated by the steel that is being forged. All the maneuvers of the hammers are effected with most wonderful facility ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various



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