Definition of "brakemen" [brakemen]

• Plural form of brakeman. (noun)

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• "It was built in 1888 to house the engineers, conductors and brakemen from the new transcontinental railroad that had just reached territorial Arizona, and was both the first-built and the last-standing two-story adobe building in Tucson."
• "The brakemen are his assistants, and stay with him to the end of the division; the engineer and fireman, with their engine, are cut off at the end of their division also."
• "Because railroads resisted installing air-brakes because it was cheaper to replace brakemen than buy brakes."