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gripman
[ grip-muhn ]
noun
plural gripmen.
- a worker on a cable car who operates the grip, which, by grasping or releasing the moving cable, starts or stops the car.
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He said airlines wouldn’t hire him for flying jobs, and he supported his family as a trolley gripman.
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The gripman stands, center, in dark uniform.
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An open “grip car†generated movement when a gripman pulled a handle to grasp a moving underground cable, while an unpowered, closed trailer car tagged along.
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“He is that!†the driver returned, emphatically, as with a dextrous jerk he swung the ambulance just in front of a cable-car, to the sputtering disgust of the gripman.
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"You'd better hang on; the gripman is mad tonight," Mary explained.
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