gripman 的定义
plural grip·men.
- 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.
- A cable-car, with clanging bell, was bearing down upon it with a speed which the gripman seemed powerless to check.
- Her neck was no bigger than a gripman's wrist and she had a nose that stood right out from her face almost an eighth of an inch.
- The gripman usually jerks his thumb over his shoulder and indicates the next car, which is three miles away.
- Towards evening, when the tides of travel set northward, it is curious to see how the gripman and conductor reverse their tempers.
- From the forward end you hear the gripman uttering shrill whoops and running over citizens.