Usually means: Operator of train's braking system.
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  1. brakeman: Merriam-Webster
  2. brakeman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brakeman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brakeman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brakeman: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brakeman, brakeman: Wordnik
  7. brakeman: Wiktionary
  8. brakeman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. brakeman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. brakeman: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Brakeman, brakeman: Dictionary.com
  12. Brakeman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Brakeman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. brakeman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. brakeman: Rhymezone
  16. Brakeman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. BRAKEMAN: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. brakeman: FreeDictionary.org
  19. brakeman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. brakeman: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Brakeman: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (brakeman)

noun:  (US, rail transport) A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
noun:  (mining, historical) A person employed to work the steam engine or other machinery that raises the coal from the mine.
noun:  (sports) A person who pulls the brake lever in the sport of bobsleigh.

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