chainman
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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
So the mystified and disappointed chainman returned to his own crowd.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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 Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
Glover chose for his companions two men: Dancing—far and away the best climber in the telegraph corps, and Smith Young, roadmaster, a chainman of Glover's when he ran the Pilot line.
From The Daughter of a Magnate by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
Such a whoop of glee ascended that the head chainman came running from the other nearby mess tent to see what was up.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
In surveying, your chainmen could measure your distances for you.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Preceded by their chainmen, Rutter and Reade trudged along the trail for something like a mile.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
Having given these directions, Jack Rutter turned, with the help of one of the chainmen to fasten a blanket behind the saddle to make a sort of extra saddle.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
Their chainmen were ahead of the "cub" engineers on the trail.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
The people might enjoy the rivalry of rustic buffoonery, pipes, fiddles, chainmen, bonemen, and tube players, a crowd of babbling painted masks—all in their due place.
From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.
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