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Fireman   /fˈaɪrmən/   Listen
Fireman

noun
(pl. firemen)
1.
Play in which children pretend to put out a fire.
2.
A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship).  Synonym: stoker.
3.
A pitcher who does not start the game.  Synonyms: relief pitcher, reliever.
4.
A member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires.  Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, firefighter.



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"Fireman" Quotes from Famous Books



... a thought had not had any influence on his actions to make him less selfish. He had thought, as all men do, that he should probably live right along after all; that death might take the engineer or conductor or fireman, but would pass ...
— Robert Hardy's Seven Days - A Dream and Its Consequences • Charles Monroe Sheldon
... to have any other employment. The department claims their whole duty. A certain number are required to be always at the engine-house. In case of an alarm being sounded during the absence of a fireman from the engine-house he runs directly to the fire, where he is sure to find his company. A watch is always kept in the engine-room day and night. After ten at night the men are allowed to go to bed, but must so arrange matters beforehand that they shall ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe
... is! Does the life of a fireman in a big city fire department strike you as being ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... about New York and London in his queer stilted way. He had been a fireman on board ship, a teacher of jiujitsu, a juggler, a quack dentist, Heaven knows what else. Driven by the conscientious inquisitiveness of his race, he had endured hardships, contempt and rough treatment with the smiling patience inculcated in the Japanese people by their ...
— Kimono • John Paris
... the second evening, however, that anything of importance occurred. But that was of considerable importance, as you shall see. I had occasion to pay a visit to the stoke-hole, where one of the men had injured his hand, and I had finished my work and was mounting the grubby wire ladder, when a fireman passed me with averted face. I hardly glanced at him, and certainly did not pause the least fraction of a second; but to the half-glance succeeded a shock. The nerves, I suppose, took a perceptible instant of time to convey the recognition to the brain; but, despite the grime on his face and ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson


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