Definition of engine driver in US English:
engine driver
nounˈenjən ˌdrīvərˈɛndʒən ˌdraɪvər
British dated A driver of a locomotive; an engineer.
Example sentencesExamples
- His father, Reg, a former Great Western Railway engine driver, always read the paper.
- He works full-time in Switzerland as an engine driver on the country's electric railway network.
- Yesterday he enjoyed chatting with the engine driver and looking at the trains at the National Railway Museum in York.
- Her father was a railway worker and later an engine driver, and although he kept his job during the 1930s Depression, the family had little money to spare.
- To become an engine driver it was necessary to start at the bottom, cleaning locomotives, to progress to stoking them and then at last to driving.