yardmaster
/yahrd-mas-ter, -mah-ster/US // ˈyɑrdˌmæs tər, -ˌmɑ stər //
院长,码农,码长,芰征
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person who superintends all or part of a railroad yard.
Examples
But what limit is set to a switchman's courage I have never known, because I've never known one to balk at a yardmaster's order.
He was a yardmaster at the time of leaving the company's employ.
You wonder why they keep an expert yardmaster and half a dozen switching crews at Waverley.
Here is the yardmaster at a great interior railroad centre—we call it Somerset for the sake of convenience.
If not, he refuses to accept it from the yardmaster until it has been resealed, and makes a note of the occurrence.
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