fireman has definitions from the fields of games,work,baseball,sport,softball,transportation
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[ noun ] (games) play in which children take the roles of firemen and pretend to put out a fire

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(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

I mean something more like Freud 's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child : he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences , reliving them imaginatively until they are under control .

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play

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[ noun ] (work,transportation) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)

Synonyms

stoker

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laborer trainman stoke

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[ noun ] (baseball,sport,softball,games) a pitcher who does not start the game

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pitcher closer take_over

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[ noun ] (work) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
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