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fireman
[ fahyuhr-muhn ]
noun
- a person employed to extinguish or prevent fires; firefighter.
- a person employed to tend fires; stoker.
- Railroads.
- a person employed to fire and lubricate a steam locomotive.
- a person employed to assist the engineer of a diesel or electric locomotive.
- U.S. Navy. an enlisted person assigned to the care and operation of a ship's machinery.
- British Mining. fire boss.
- Baseball. relief pitcher.
fireman
/ ˈfaɪəmən /
noun
- a man who fights fires, usually a public employee or trained volunteer Gender-neutral formfirefighter
- (on steam locomotives) the man who stokes the fire and controls the injectors feeding water to the boiler
- (on diesel and electric locomotives) the driver's assistant
- a man who tends furnaces; stoker
- Also calleddeputy a mine official responsible for safety precautions US equivalentfire boss
- navy a junior rating who works on marine engineering equipment
- informal.any employee who is dispatched to deal with trouble at short notice
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Fireman, for instance, has a couple of tax-losing leisure activities that have traditionally been scrutinized as possible hobbies.
A fireman came in on a stretcher, an older man, wearing the uniform of a unit from Jersey City across the river.
The cheers that went up when a fireman was taken from a window, placed on a gurney and rolled away.
He didn’t have typical kid dreams—of growing up to become a fireman, doctor, or movie star.
Eventually, he leaves the dog in the care of another fireman and we go back, discussing the fire and the dog.
In fact, he would survive it, working as a volunteer fireman in London during the blitz.
The backup-man stops stroller traffic on the sidewalk, another fireman is road guard.
My cousin Al is a Navy veteran, a former EMT, and now a fireman in New York City.
He wanted to go into the Army and then be a police officer and then be a fireman.
The engineer and fireman stood leaning out over the closed lower half of the engine-room door.
Again the fireman reflected, for there was nothing hasty about this excellent creature.
Under Mr. Van Britt's directions the engineer and fireman of the pilot engine brought tools and the break was repaired.
The fireman—'e's a real 'andsome man—I can tike to that sort myself.
But the driver and fireman were beyond the range of their skill.
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