Definition of "brakesman" [brakesman]

• Someone who operates the winch in a mine (noun)
• Brakeman. (noun)

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• "Of these men we have examples in Brindley, who was at first a labourer and afterwards a millwright; Telford was a stone-mason; Rennie a farmer's son apprenticed to a millwright; and George Stephenson was a brakesman at a colliery."
• "Mitchell Robertson, who owned it, but who was then working on the train as a brakesman out of Calgary."
• "The brakesman entrusted with a rifle in that room paid no attention until a strong hand wrenched it from him."