trainman

[ treyn-muhn ]

noun

, plural train·men.

1. a member of the crew that operates a railroad train, usually an assistant to the conductor, such as a brakeman or flagman.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trainman¹

1635–45, in sense “member of a trainband”; 1875–80 for current sense; train + -man

Example Sentences

"Then you'll git out the next time it stops, young Missie," the trainman announced harshly.

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The trainman climbed up on a box and sat whittling a stick and watching Olive out of a pair of shrewd Irish blue eyes.

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The train was still motionless, although, further back, a trainman was holding his hand aloft.

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These things the rivermen saw from their stream exactly as a trainman would see them from his right-of-way.

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Up to that time it had been no sinecure, being a conductor or a trainman on the old Rome road.

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