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Definition of Brakemen
1. brakeman [n] - See also: brakeman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brakemen
Literary usage of Brakemen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1915)
"... FREIGHT CONDUCTORS, FREIGHT brakemen, ENGINE HOUSE FOREMEN, SUPERVISORS OF
SIGNALS, SIGNAL REPAIRMEN. The technical rules ami regulations governing the ..."
2. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1913)
"... FREIGHT CONDUCTORS, FREIGHT brakemen, ENGINE HOUSE FOREMEN, SUPERVISORS OF
SIGNALS, SIGNAL REPAIRMEN. The technical rules and regulations governing the ..."
3. Handbook of Railroad Expenses by James Shirley Eaton (1913)
"here to place the yard foreman with his brakemen and yard switchmen, under the
head of “Yard Conductors and brakemen.” With the officials go their staff of ..."
4. Sympathetic Strikes and Sympathetic Lockouts by Fred Smith Hall (1898)
"As another illustration of this opposition, the Brotherhood of Railway brakemen
might be cited. The brakemen on the Union Pacific in 1886 declared a strike ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Carriers: As Administered in the Courts of the by Robert Hutchinson, Jacob Scott Matthews, William Frederick Dickinson (1906)
"Liability of carrier for ill-treatment of passenger—Liable for assaults by brakemen
and conductors. Passengers on railroad trains are peculiarly under the ..."
6. The Labor Movement: The Problem of To-day by Terence Vincent Powderly, Edmund Janes James (1892)
"BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD brakemen — ORGANIZED, 1883 — PHENOMENAL GROWTH — PRINCIPLES
OF THE ORDER — IT is OPPOSED TO STRIKES. ..."
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