yeoman service en · NOUN
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of yeoman's service.
alt of yeoman's service
Though largely ousted on main-line duties by the 4-6-0, this type [the 4-4-0] performed yeoman service on express work during the latter part of the last century and the early part of this.
1945 November and December, H. C. Casserley, “Random Reflections on British Locomotive Types—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 321: