Tillerman vs Fireman - What's the difference?
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(US) A person who steers the rear wheels of a fire truck or controls its ladder
*2003 Tom Zambrano - Warriors of Fire
*:That function was reserved for the tillerman , (the man that sits at the top steering position at the rear of the aerial ladder).
*2005 Justin T. Mayhue - Hagerstown Firefighting Through the Years
*:The driver in the back is called the tillerman'. The ' tillerman steers the rear wheels, allowing the truck to turn onto narrow streets and alleys.
(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 tillerman and fireman
is that tillerman is a person who steers the rear wheels of a fire truck or controls its ladder while fireman is someone (implied male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.tillerman
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(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'.