Word Meanings - BRAKEMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man in charge of a brake or brakes.

Related words: (words related to BRAKEMAN)

• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• BRAKE
  of Break. Tennyson.
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• BRAKEMAN
  A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
• CHARGELESS
  Free from, or with little, charge.
• CHARGEABLENESS
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
• CHARGEOUS
  Burdensome. I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, .
• CHARGEABLY
  At great cost; expensively.
• CHARGER
  1. One who, or that which charges. 2. An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge. 3. A large dish. Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Matt. xiv. 8. 4. A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed.
• CHARGEFUL
  Costly; expensive. The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.
• CHARGEHOUSE
  A schoolhouse.
• CHARGESHIP
  The office of a chargé d'affaires.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• CANEBRAKE
  A thicket of canes. Ellicott.
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• AIR BRAKE
  A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.
• RECHARGE
  1. To charge or accuse in return. 2. To attack again; to attack anew. Dryden.
• SURCHARGER
  One who surcharges.
• DOUBLE-CHARGE
  1. To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder. 2. To overcharge. Shak.
• UNDERCHARGE
  1. To charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable fro; as, to undercharge goods or services. 2. To put too small a charge into; as, to undercharge a gun. Undercharged mine , a mine whose crater is not as wide at top as it is