单词 | bakehead |
释义 | > as lemmasbakehead bakehead n. U.S. slang (now historical). a person employed to tend a fire or furnace on a steam locomotive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > train-staff > fireman fireman1849 bakehead1907 tallow pot1914 1907 Railroad Telegrapher July 1092/1 Gallop up on the back of the tender and stay there, see, and when the bake head goes shy on the diamonds [i.e. coal] you ladle it down to him. 2012 S. Russell Dead Man's Tunnel xxiii. 178 The bakehead opened the firebox, the heat blasting into the cab. < as lemmas |
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