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  • noun US A person in charge of the baggage at a railway station.

Etymologies

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baggage +‎ master

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Examples

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

    The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore Laura Lee Hope

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

    A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" William H. Maher

  • You will find the baggagemaster, the cook, the Professor of English Literature and the

    A Girl in Ten Thousand L. T. Meade 1884

  • 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.

    A Tramp Abroad 1879

  • 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:

    Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878

  • 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.

    A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 Mark Twain 1872

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