Fireman

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A firefighter.
  • n. A man who tends fires; a stoker.
  • n. An enlisted man in the U.S. Navy engaged in the operation of engineering machinery.
  • n. Baseball A relief pitcher.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Someone (implied male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.
  • n. A man who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive.
  • n. By extension of the above, an assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not.
  • n. A relief pitcher.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
  • n. A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of an organized company, in a city or town, whose business it is to extinguish or prevent conflagrations; a member of a fire-company.
  • n. One of the crew of a gun in the United States navy whose duty it is to assist in extinguishing fire, especially during a battle.
  • n. A man employed in tending fires, as of a steam-engine; a stoker.
  • n. In coal-mining, a person charged with the special duty of examining every morning the working-places and roads of a pit to ascertain if fire-damp is present.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. play in which children pretend to put out a fire
  • n. a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
  • n. a pitcher who does not start the game
  • n. a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
    • Antonym
    firewoman   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    play    child's play    jack    laborer    labourer   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stocker    stoker   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    firemen    wireman   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    policeman    electrician    carpenter    medic    miner   
     
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