[f. ENGINE sb. + MAN.] a. One who works, or helps to work, a fire-engine. b. One who attends to a stationary steam-engine. c. The driver of a locomotive.
1835. E. Parsons, Tourist’s Comp., 243. No Gratuity is allowed to be taken by any Guard, Engineman, Porter, [etc.].
1852. Hawthorne, Blithedale Rom., xxii. 174. A fire … brought out the engine-men.
1859. Smiles, Self-Help, iv. 81. Stephenson taught himself arithmetic and mensuration while working as an engineman.
1871. M. Collins, Mrq. & Merch., viii. 261. He saw … only the guards and enginemen.
