brakeman
English
noun
Definitions
- (US) A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
- (mining) A person employed to work the steam engine or other machinery that raises the coal from the mine.
- (sports) A person who pulls the brake lever in the sport of bobsleigh.
Etymology
Suffix from English brake.
Origin
English
brake
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aerobrake English
- airbrake English
- autobrake English
- brake English
- brake line English
- brakeforce English
- brakeless English
- brakemaker English
- brakesman English
- brakewoman English
- canebrake English
- e-brake English
- fernbrake English
- handbrake English
- overbrake English
- parabrake English
- unbrake English
- เบรก Thai
- ဘရိတ် Burmese
- 迫力 Chinese
- 브레이크 Korean
- ibhuleki Zulu