brakesman
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Someone who operates the winch in a mine.
A brakeman
A brakeman; a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
- And some time after becoming naturalized, in one of his letters, he wrote that he was a brakesman on the Great Western R.R., (in Canada--promoted from the U.G.R.R.,) the result of being under the protection of the British Lion.
- The young man on the ranch later said he was tenant in charge of the place for Mitchell Robertson, who owned it, but who was then working on the train as a brakesman out of Calgary.
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