| 单词 | hoghead |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoghead hoghead n. U.S. Railways slang the driver or engineer of a locomotive; = hogger n.1 2 (cf. 15a). ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > train-staff > engine-driver engine driver1809 engineer1816 engineman1835 locomotive engineer1840 runner1848 locomotive driver1852 locomotive runner1860 locoman1894 hogger1904 hoghead1905 1905 Daily Times-Tribune (Waterloo, Iowa) 18 Oct. 5/5 Engineer Dahlin, a ‘hog-head’ from the Cherokee division was in Waterloo yesterday having come in on an extra. He went west on the local. 1931 Illinois Central Mag. June 30/2 To the initiated, a ‘tallow-pit’ is a locomotive fire-man and a ‘hoghead’ is the engineer. 2007 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 2 Dec. b4 He ran everything the railroad had. He was a good hoghead and knew all the nuances and tricks of the trade. < as lemmas |
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