chainman

[cheyn-muhn]

noun

Surveying.

plural

chainmen 

1. a person who holds and positions a chain in taking measurements.

chainman

/ ˈtʃeɪnmən /

noun

1. surveying a person who does the chaining in a survey

Word History and Origins

Origin of chainman¹

An Americanism dating back to 1705–15; chain + -man

Example Sentences

The man had a wrestler’s neck and the shoulders of a chainman.

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He could act as rodman, chainman or slopeman as circumstances required.

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Sari Gabor, redhaired, green-eyed "Miss Hungary" of 1936, planning to divorce Hotel Chainman Conrad Hilton, coolly figured it should cost him a cool $10,000,000.

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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.

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The head chainman carried all of these to start with, and stuck one into the ground at the end of each hundred feet.

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