fireman

IPA: fˈaɪrmʌn

(firefighting) Someone (especially one who is male) who is skilled in the work of fighting fire.
(rail transport, nautical) A person (originally a man) who keeps the fire going underneath a steam boiler (originally, shoveling coal by hand), particularly on a railroad locomotive or steamship.
(rail transport, by extension) An assistant on any locomotive, whether steam-powered or not.
(baseball) A relief pitcher (reflecting the figurative analogy of rescuing the situation).
(mining, historical) A safety inspector in coal mines.

Examples of "fireman" in Sentences

The fireman is playing the hose on me from the engine.
I had to carry her in fireman style, kicking and screaming everyday for a month, she hated it so much.
In the world where this story takes place, a fireman is not someone who stops fires, but someone who burns books.
He put on the gloves with a fireman from the Berthe in a scheduled four-round bout at the Folies Bergère, and was knocked out in the second round.
He put on the gloves with a fireman from the Berthe in a scheduled four-round bout at the Folies Bergères, and was knocked out in the second round.
The other fireman is already a distinguished one with a Nobel Peace Prize, and all along the way you don't know if he's the fireman or the pyromaniac.
Here Bradbury evoked in less than 10 pages the same emotions as “The Fireman” did at considerably longer length, with the boy Tom serving much the same role as the title fireman of the more famous story.