At any rate, American tramps know well that neither the engineer nor fireman, his faithful attendant, will inform the conductor or brakesmanof their presence on a train.
Again, when no firearm was in evidence, we had to threaten thebrakesman with death if he interfered with us.
To this place Stephenson first came as a brakesman about the beginning of 1805.
Stephenson was again taken on as a brakesman at the West Moor Pit.
The requirements of the work at night are such, that the brakesman has a good deal of spare time on his hands, which he is at liberty to employ in his own way.
In this capacity he soon left the “regular” men far behind, though they in their turn were very mach disposed to treat the Killingworth brakesman as no better than a quack.
Though only twenty years of age, his employers thought so well of him that they appointed him to the responsible office of brakesman at the Dolly Pit.
After working for several years more as a brakesman at the Willington machine, George Stephenson was induced to leave his situation there for a similar one at the West Moor Colliery, Killingworth.
On the full corves being replaced by empty ones, it was then the duty of the brakesman to reverse the engine, and send the corves down the pit to be filled again.
So well has the brakesman the cars under his control that at one stroke of the bell he can stop them instantaneously wherever they may be on the track.
In this capacity he soon left the "regular" men far behind, though they, in their turn, were very much disposed to treat the Killingworth brakesman as no better than a quack.
After working for about three years as a brakesman at the Willington machine, George Stephenson was induced to leave his situation there for a similar one at the West Moor Colliery, Killingworth.
Not long after he began to work at Black Callerton as brakesman he had a quarrel with a pitman named Ned Nelson, a roystering bully, who was the terror of the village.
To this place Stephenson first came as a brakesman about the end of 1804.
It was while working at Willington as a brakesman that he first learned how best to handle a spade in throwing ballast out of the ships' holds.
When I was a brakesman at Killingworth, I learned the art of embroidery while working the pitmen's button-holes by the engine fire at nights.
Whether working as a brakesman or an engineer, his mind was always full of the work in hand.
The requirements of the work at night are such that the brakesman has a good deal of spare time on his hands, which he is at liberty to employ in his own way.
He shall take care to run no train without a brake-van at the rear end, and a brakesman in attendance.
Some day a thoughtless brakesman like yeerself will take a careless breath in the vicinity--and there ain't an undertaker this side o' Saskatoon.
The brakesman entrusted with a rifle in that room paid no attention until a strong hand wrenched it from him.
The brakesman is supplied with a convenient seat and footboard, and on the floor-level of the latter there is a pawl and ratchet attached to the vertical rod, which permits the brakes to be applied to the extent required.
The brakesman has merely to put it on, the pawl and ratchet keep it on, and the bow springs take it off when no longer required.
He was now brakesman of a hoisting engine, dividing his small leisure between his studies and his cobblery, for he added to his earnings by mending shoes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brakesman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
