Meanings
nounpumpman (plural pumpmen)
plural pumpmen
- A man employed to operate a pump, as in a mine.
This engine, and the branch engine, were washed out regularly after six days' work by the pumpman (but not on a Monday) the spare engine being used to cover their normal duties on such occasions.
1952 February, J Pelham Maitland, “Locomotive Working on Sussex Branches Fifty Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 83
Origin
Translations
Turkish tulumbacı
- tulumbacıoperator of a pump
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