engine driver


noun
  1. mainly British a person who drives a railway locomotive; train driver

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How to use engine driver in a sentence

  • The engine-driver had been quite near to Don all evening and now Don asked a question.

  • His father is an engine-driver on the railway; he has begun school late, because he was ill for two years.

    Cuore (Heart) | Edmondo De Amicis
  • Our engine driver was held up by the strikers bivouacked in the railroad yards and we were stalled there for hours.

    Memoirs of an American Prima Donna | Clara Louise Kellogg
  • On the opposite side, the pipes would be solely for communication between the guard and engine-driver.

  • The engine-driver looked down upon him very sternly, and said, 'Now tell the truth; what were you put in prison for?'

    The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame