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
I'm chainman with the Rutland party, out from North Bay on a topographical survey.
From Every Man for Himself by Hopkins Moorhouse
He could act as rodman, chainman or slopeman as circumstances required.
From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang
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
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
In surveying, your chainmen could measure your distances for you.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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 J. H. Morgan
Immediately after supper Tom ordered one of the chainmen to saddle a pony and be ready to take a message back to the telegraph service that was rapidly overtaking them.
From The Young Engineers in Colorado Or, At Railwood Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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 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
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