Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A man who manages an engine, as in steamers, steam-cars, manufactories, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A man who operates or manages an engine

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Examples

  • "KILLS" while an engineman on the railroad that he supposedly retired from. end quote

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Stiles was discharged from the Navy as an engineman fireman recruit, the article reported.

    STILES - Fugitive Accused of Raping Child Caught 2010

  • That's RNC Steele's invite to rightwing smear machine engineman, Andrew Breitbart to appear at the RNC's three day confab in Los Angeles, August 12 to 14.

    Earl Ofari Hutchinson: GOP's Invitation to Breibart Proves they are Lying About Race 2010

  • That's RNC Steele's invite to rightwing smear machine engineman, Andrew Breitbart to appear at the RNC's three day confab in Los Angeles, August 12 to 14.

    Earl Ofari Hutchinson: GOP's Invitation to Breitbart Proves They Are Lying About Race 2010

  • Men like Larry Lee, who was on our bow with an M-60 machine gun as we charged the riverbank, Kenneth Martin, who was in the. 50-caliber gun tub atop our boat, and Benjamin Cueva, our engineman, who was at our aft gun mount suppressing the fire from the opposite bank.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

  • Men like Larry Lee, who was on our bow with an M-60 machine gun as we charged the riverbank, Kenneth Martin, who was in the. 50-caliber gun tub atop our boat, and Benjamin Cueva, our engineman, who was at our aft gun mount suppressing the fire from the opposite bank.

    I can't believe... 2004

  • Men like Larry Lee, who was on our bow with an M-60 machine gun as we charged the riverbank, Kenneth Martin, who was in the. 50-caliber gun tub atop our boat, and Benjamin Cueva, our engineman, who was at our aft gun mount suppressing the fire from the opposite bank.

    An injury to one... 2004

  • Men like Larry Lee, who was on our bow with an M-60 machine gun as we charged the riverbank, Kenneth Martin, who was in the. 50-caliber gun tub atop our boat, and Benjamin Cueva, our engineman, who was at our aft gun mount suppressing the fire from the opposite bank.

    Primary Returns 2004

  • Men like Larry Lee, who was on our bow with an M-60 machine gun as we charged the riverbank, Kenneth Martin, who was in the. 50-caliber gun tub atop our boat, and Benjamin Cueva, our engineman, who was at our aft gun mount suppressing the fire from the opposite bank.

    1001 2004

  • Davis has taken a job as engineman on an old Christian missionary ship, currently stuck in the Haitian port of Jeremie.

    The Elegant Variation: ChristianBauman 2005

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