yardmaster

[ yahrd-mas-ter, -mah-ster ]

noun

1. a person who superintends all or part of a railroad yard.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yardmaster¹

First recorded in 1870–75; yard ² + master

Example Sentences

But what limit is set to a switchman's courage I have never known, because I've never known one to balk at a yardmaster's order.

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He was a yardmaster at the time of leaving the company's employ.

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You wonder why they keep an expert yardmaster and half a dozen switching crews at Waverley.

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Here is the yardmaster at a great interior railroad centre—we call it Somerset for the sake of convenience.

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If not, he refuses to accept it from the yardmaster until it has been resealed, and makes a note of the occurrence.

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