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- noun One who is in charge of a railroad track.
Etymologies
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Frank Brothers, who was the roadmaster, had tried to get the bent spike for himself but Smith, who was a very canny Scot, said ` Just a minute, I want that. and he seized it and put it in his pocket: and he had strips of it taken off and made into jewellery for wives of the directors of the CPR.
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"No, Harry," whispered the roadmaster; "may I be shot if it's more than five."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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When the roadmaster returned, he had assumed a patronizing sort of look.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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"The devil take the Bainbridge roadmaster -- I repeat it!" cried Richards, half in earnest and half laughing, raising his muddy and bootless foot as he spoke, and placing it on a chair.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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The roadmaster was early at the door to warn Hanz out to break roads, but excused him when he heard how happy a man he had been made during the night.
The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family A. R. [Illustrator] Waud
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"A hurra for old Alabama!" cried he, "and the devil take the Bainbridge roadmaster!"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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At the age of twelve he held up Fitzgerald, the roadmaster, at the point of a pistol, and more than once delayed the departure of the Overland
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923
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So time passes again, and Dan goes up to division headquarters at Barlow to dispatch trains, and Michael gives a last order as assistant roadmaster and comes home to his long sickness.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Anxious to get the track open in the belief that Blood could best be got at from beyond the S bridge, Glover, standing with the branch roadmaster, Smith Young, on the ledge above the engines directed the fight for the hill.
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