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fireman
[ fahyuhr-muhn ]
noun
plural firemen.
- a person employed to extinguish or prevent fires; firefighter.
- a person employed to tend fires; stoker.
- Railroads.
- a person employed to fire and lubricate a steam locomotive.
- a person employed to assist the engineer of a diesel or electric locomotive.
- U.S. Navy. an enlisted person assigned to the care and operation of a ship's machinery.
- British Mining. fire boss.
- Baseball. relief pitcher.
fireman
/ 藞蹿补瑟蓹尘蓹苍 /
noun
- a man who fights fires, usually a public employee or trained volunteer Gender-neutral formfirefighter
- (on steam locomotives) the man who stokes the fire and controls the injectors feeding water to the boiler
- (on diesel and electric locomotives) the driver's assistant
- a man who tends furnaces; stoker
- Also calleddeputy a mine official responsible for safety precautions US equivalentfire boss
- navy a junior rating who works on marine engineering equipment
- informal.any employee who is dispatched to deal with trouble at short notice
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Gender Note
See -man.
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"Most of the firemen know the area so well and they know how to manage it."
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After a nervy 30 minutes, firemen finally freed the parachutist and his chute to big cheers from the crowd.
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鈥淚magine if the word 鈥榝ireman鈥 meant that 15 people could say they鈥檙e the one, and only one has the hose.鈥
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"I always felt like I was surrounded by such incredible people, lifeguards that were also firemen or firewomen. It was really, really, empowering."
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Donald Trump excels at being both an arsonist and a fireman on any issue except the real fires out in Los Angeles.
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