A historical British term for the fireman of a steam engine — the person responsible for stoking and maintaining the fire that powered the boiler.
A historical British term for the fireman of a steam engine — the person responsible for stoking and maintaining the fire that powered the boiler. The word is colourful and suggests the skilled, ongoing labour of coaxing fire to produce consistent steam pressure. Now purely historical.
The fire-teaser kept shovelling coal through the night to keep the locomotive running on schedule.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, historical) The fireman of a steam engine.
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