Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who drives an electrically powered streetcar, locomotive, or subway train.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose business it is to drive a motor-car or automobile vehicle.
- noun A man who operates a motor; specifically, one who operates a railway motor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun archaic A man who controls a motor.
- noun an operator of a motor vehicle, especially of a streetcar or subway train.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A man who controls a
motor . - noun A person who operates a
motor vehicle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the operator of streetcar
Etymologies
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Examples
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The next one slowed down for him; but all at once it started up again more swift than the wind, he says; and he could see that the motorman was a coward about something, because he looked greatly frightened when he flew by the spot.
Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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He calls the motorman only to be answered by an unknown man who claims to have hijacked the train with a group of heavily armed men and to be holding the passengers hostage.
unknown title 2009
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On the other side a brewery waggon was locking with the coal waggon, and an east-bound Kearny Street car, wildly clanging its gong, the motorman shouting defiance at the crossing policeman, was dashing forward to complete the blockade.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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On the other side a brewery wagon was locking with the coal wagon, and an east-bound Kearny-Street car, wildly clanging its gong, the motorman shouting defiance at the crossing policeman, was dashing forward to complete the blockade.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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The second was taken at the University end of the OPT track, and the vague figure behind the glass is motorman Allan, a rather baffling fellow.
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The motorman, smashing helmets with his controller bar, was beaten into insensibility and dragged from his platform.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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The motorman, smashing helmets with his controller bar, was beaten into insensibility and dragged from his platform.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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They did not connect the couple with Jimmy, who sprang on the steps, crying to the motorman: — "Slam on the juice, old man, and beat it outa here!"
Chapter 42 2010
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A motorman, for example, must drive his train from one end of the line to another, no matter what his disposition may be on any morning.
Henry J. Stern: To Do or Not to Do Henry J. Stern 2011
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A nervous streetcar motorman clangs his bell for the high notes while a shivering coal truck driver pushes a lever delivering a claghorn bass arruughaa!
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