chainman
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Origin of chainman
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The man had a wrestler’s neck and the shoulders of a chainman.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Now the head chainman starts off on a run, with his eyes fixed on the distant flag, and dragging a hundred feet of glistening steel-links behind him.
From Campmates A Story of the Plains by Munroe, Kirk
Old Jimmy Gillon took one end of the chain; he said he had been a chainman when the railway mania first broke out in Scotland, so he knew all about land surveying.
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.
Buck was readily located in the country north of Arcata, and one of the operatives actually procured a job as chainman with his surveying gang, while the other kept Ogilvy and his secretary under surveillance.
From The Valley of the Giants by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
The rear chainman gathered them up as he came to them, and thus, by counting the number of pins in his hand, he always knew just what distance had been measured.
From Campmates A Story of the Plains by Munroe, Kirk
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