chainman
Americannoun
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chainmen
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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 Kirk Munroe
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 J. Macfarlane
So the mystified and disappointed chainman returned to his own crowd.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Newspaper trainboy, chainman, assistant on Government frontier surveys, and frontier scout, he early saved his money so as to complete a sporadic university curriculum.
From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Richard Savage
In surveying, your chainmen could measure your distances for you.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
They passed other crews of men, surveyors with transits, chainmen, stake drivers, ax gangs widening the path through the timber.
From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer
Rutter, like a good chief, saw to it that his two assistants and the chainmen were started on their meal ere he himself began.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
"You won't poison yourself, Hazelton," replied Rutter quickly, as one of the chainmen came near with the recaptured pony.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
From this stake he laid out a new course to the north and at exact right angles with the proper course, sending his chainmen forward with markers.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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