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footplate man en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of footplateman.
Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 845:The circular attacks the policy of ASLEF, the principal footplatemen's union, for its opposition to pay differentials between main-line drivers and other footplate men, claiming that it destroys ambition and enterprise.
1964 May, “News and Comment: Breakaway footplate union”, in Modern Railways, page 293:
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