Fireman vs Fires - What's the difference?
fireman | fires |
(firefighting) Someone (implied male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.
(rail transport) A man who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive.
* ca. 1913 The wreck of Old 97 [ballad, Blue Ridge Mountains], verse 3:
(rail transport) By extension of the above, an assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not.
(baseball) A relief pitcher.
As nouns the difference between fireman and fires
is that fireman is someone (implied male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire while fires is plural of lang=en.As a verb fires is
third-person singular of fire.fireman
English
(wikipedia fireman)Noun
(firemen)- He looked around his cab at his black greasy fireman, saying 'shovel on a little more coal, and when we cross that White Oak Mountain, you can watch Old 97 roll'.