donkeyman

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noun

The person who operates a donkey engine.

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

noundonkeyman (plural donkeymen)

plural donkeymen

  1. The person who operates a donkey engine.
  2. nauticalThe person in charge of a ship's engine room.

    One of the stokers was disabled, the others had given in, the second engineer and the donkey-man were firing-up. The third engineer was standing by the steam-valve. The engines were being tended by hand.

    1902 January–March, Joseph Conrad, “Typhoon”, in George R. Halkett, editor, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume XXVI, London: Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, →OCLC, chapter IV, page 226, column 2

Origin

From donkey + -man.

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