motorman

English

Etymology

motor +‎ -man

Noun

motorman (plural motormen)

1. (dated) A man who controls a motor.
2. A person who operates a motor vehicle.
3. (India) A train driver.
4. (UK) An electric train or tram driver.
   • 1961 March, “Talking of trains: Collision at Waterloo”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138:

     The electric train motorman denied emphatically that he had misread this train's signals for his own and asserted that the inner home signal on the up main through line for his train was displaying a green aspect, with the indicator showing platform 14.

References

• “motorman”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.