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baggagemaster

[ bag-ij-mas-ter, -mah-ster ]

noun

  1. a person employed, especially by a railroad, bus company, or steamship line, to take charge of passengers' baggage.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of baggagemaster1

First recorded in 1805–15; baggage + master
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"No, no, Steinhouser," the baggagemaster shouts as a tinny piano bangs out a tune.

Just then the baggagemaster had taken a dipper of water from the barrel, and was drinking it, when a sepulchral voice, that seemed to come from the coffin, said: "Dammit, let me out!"

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"Don't you want a job?" the baggagemaster asked Freddie.

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At midnight I was checking my sample-trunk for Albany, and persuading the baggagemaster that 218 pounds were exactly 120.

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When an Erie baggagemaster saw it two years ago, he could hardly keep from checking it; and once when a customs inspector was brought into its presence, he gazed upon it in silent rapture for some moments, then slowly and unconsciously placed one hand behind him with the palm uppermost, and got out his chalk with the other.

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