"locoman" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "The evidence which I propose to give will deal with safety and health questions concerning all grades of enginemen, boilermen, and locomen […]"
        },
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          "ref": "1948, Report of the National Executive Committee [to The] Annual Conference, National Union of Mineworkers",
          "text": "The Lancashire Tradesmen's Association organises craftsmen, semi-skilled and unskilled workmen on the surface other than the manipulators of coal, enginemen, boilermen and locomen; it also organises skilled craftsmen underground, although some craftsmen are organised by the Lancashire Area, which seeks to organise all underground workers including craftsmen.",
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          "ref": "2006, The Railway Magazine, volume 152, page 24",
          "text": "As an ex-locoman of the steam days between 1954 and 1968, I would like to set right a misconception that is prevalent in some areas of the steam locomotive preservation movement.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 55",
          "text": "The Crescent Road sheds had a favourite locomotive - Stanier 4MT tank engine 42626 (known by Bolton locomen as 'two half-dollars') - and the shed authorities quietly arranged for it to be put to one side for a few days, while the ardent schoolboys set to work cleaning it.",
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        "Someone who works on a locomotive."
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        "(rail transport, dated) Someone who works on a locomotive."
      ],
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      ],
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        "railways",
        "transport"
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          "ref": "2005, Okeyo A. Jumal, “Baba Zumbi”, in Spiritual Shackles, Griot, page 150",
          "text": "Locomen, prophets who claim clairvoyance, tossed animal bones from magical gourds, reading the scattered patterns to gain a glimpse into tomorrow.",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Diana Paton, The Cultural Politics of Obeah, page 31",
          "text": "John Gabriel Stedman described Quacy as a locoman, diviner, and sorcerer (rather than an obeah man) who made and sold 'oias or amulets' that made their wearers 'invulnerable'.",
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        "A person in Suriname thought to be a clairvoyant or a sorcerer."
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        "(historical) A person in Suriname thought to be a clairvoyant or a sorcerer."
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          "text": "The Crescent Road sheds had a favourite locomotive - Stanier 4MT tank engine 42626 (known by Bolton locomen as 'two half-dollars') - and the shed authorities quietly arranged for it to be put to one side for a few days, while the ardent schoolboys set to work cleaning it.",
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          "ref": "2015, Diana Paton, The Cultural Politics of Obeah, page 31",
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