brakeman
noun
brake·man ˈbrāk-mən 
1
: a freight or passenger train crew member who inspects the train and assists the conductor
2
: the member of a bobsled team who operates the brake
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Humphries was so respected in Canada that she and her brakeman, Heather Moyse, were chosen to carry the flag in the closing ceremony in Sochi. 
Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2022 Henry Tipton Jones, son of Ralph L. Jones, a Patapsco & Back Rivers Railroad brakeman, and Julia Alice Sellers Jones, a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and spent his early years in Sparrows Point before moving with his family to Dundalk. Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2022 On a whim that same year, he was hired on by the Union Pacific railroad, working as a brakeman, and later, an engineer. Jesse Will, Outside Online, 15 Mar. 2022 Humphries began as an alternate brakeman for Team Canada at the 2006 Games in Torino, Italy. Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2022 The four-man event, in which Williamson competes as a brakeman in Hunter Church‘s sled, begins Saturday at the Yanqing National Sliding Center while Hoffman’s two-woman event begins Thursday. Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2022 Meyers Taylor has won silver medals as a driver at the last two Games, as well as a bronze as a brakeman in 2010. USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022 And Schroeder later met Regis Schilling, a brakeman on the train who also was a linoleum artist. cleveland, 2 Feb. 2022 Eager to leave being a clerk and getting into actual railroad operations, Mr. Amos went to work as a brakeman and after being furloughed became a fireman shoveling coal into the fireboxes of steam engines. Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2020 See More
Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2022 Henry Tipton Jones, son of Ralph L. Jones, a Patapsco & Back Rivers Railroad brakeman, and Julia Alice Sellers Jones, a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and spent his early years in Sparrows Point before moving with his family to Dundalk. Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2022 On a whim that same year, he was hired on by the Union Pacific railroad, working as a brakeman, and later, an engineer. Jesse Will, Outside Online, 15 Mar. 2022 Humphries began as an alternate brakeman for Team Canada at the 2006 Games in Torino, Italy. Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2022 The four-man event, in which Williamson competes as a brakeman in Hunter Church‘s sled, begins Saturday at the Yanqing National Sliding Center while Hoffman’s two-woman event begins Thursday. Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2022 Meyers Taylor has won silver medals as a driver at the last two Games, as well as a bronze as a brakeman in 2010. USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022 And Schroeder later met Regis Schilling, a brakeman on the train who also was a linoleum artist. cleveland, 2 Feb. 2022 Eager to leave being a clerk and getting into actual railroad operations, Mr. Amos went to work as a brakeman and after being furloughed became a fireman shoveling coal into the fireboxes of steam engines. Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1833, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
brakeman
noun
brake·man ˈbrāk-mən
plural brakemen
-mən
: a crew member on a train who inspects the train and helps the conductor