Definitions
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- noun A
man who works on arailway .
Etymologies
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rail + -man
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Examples
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Everyone I meet, whether farmer, miner, railman, professor, cleric, or the long-faced Senator, and most especially the wives of these-everyone wants to know why I would submit to a marital practice so filled with subjugation and sorrow.
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In front of the camera were two unfakable underdogs: rugged Kentuckian Ray Salyer as the railman, and Gorman Hendricks as his older, bewhiskered friend.
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Milestone Films Ray Salyer as the itinerant railman in Rogosin's film.
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Rogosin's work was a pioneering documentary hybrid, starring tippling nonprofessionals acting out a nominal plot about a railman who hits town looking for work.
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