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Definitions
Someone who operates the winch in a mine.
Word origin
From brake + -s- + -man.
Used in a sentence
“The young man on the ranch later said he was tenant in charge of the place for Mitchell Robertson, who owned it, but who was then working on the train as a brakesman out of Calgary.”
“[...] their speed (which was not supposed to exceed 10 m.p.h. normally, and less when the train was heavy or the weather was bad) was regulated by brakesmen known as "bank-riders."”
“When the trains meet, the points of the loop are operated from the lineside by the trainmen or brakesmen specially carried for this job.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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