chainman
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chainmen
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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
The head chainman carried all of these to start with, and stuck one into the ground at the end of each hundred feet.
From Campmates A Story of the Plains by Kirk Munroe
He was at once offered a position as chainman, and told to report two weeks later.
From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by William Elliot Griffis
One chainman now held an end of a hundred-link chain at the nail head on the stake, while a second man started toward the rodman, unfolding the chain as he went.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
"Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
In surveying, your chainmen could measure your distances for you.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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
Tom waited to get from the chainmen the distance to the edge of the wood.
From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Edward William Thomson
Animated by the spirit of activity that pervaded the camp, Tom and Harry ran to select their instruments, while Rutter hastened after his chainmen.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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
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