| 单词 | engine wiper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasengine wiper engine wiper n. U.S. (now historical) a person employed to clean locomotives. ΚΠ 1870 Evening Gaz. (Port Jervis, N.Y.) 7 June 1/5 Mr. John Lyons, employed in the engine house at Hornsville, as engine wiper. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. xii. 83 An engine wiper can get a job, but a piano player! 2004 Railway Age (Nexis) 1 Jan. 31 One, N. R. Crump, whom we named one of the railroad's business cars after, started as an engine wiper in Revelstoke. < as lemmas |
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