baggageman

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1. 1
   noun

   historical: a railway employee responsible for receiving, guarding, sorting, and delivering passengers' baggage, often in a baggage car

   The baggageman checked the traveler's trunk before loading it into the railway car.

Formed in American English from baggage + man. The occupational title was common in the railway era for the employee who managed luggage in a station or aboard a train.

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