surveyor's chain
Americannoun
noun
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There are reaches equal to a degree of latitude untrodden, as yet, by the foot of the tourist, and where the clanking of the surveyor's chain and rods has never been heard; and some of these you may find within two hundred miles of San Francisco.
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Out in Arizona, carrying a surveyor's chain, dreaming of you!
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You are not so fatuous as to want to drag a surveyor's chain across its cold chasms and jagged heights; and after a brief study of your frozen charmer you would turn your telescope on something accessible and more valuable.
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He next tried surveying, his surveyor's chain, according to report, being a trailing grapevine.
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But a few rods away, and coming towards him, were two men, one bearing the end of a surveyor’s chain and a bundle of wire rods, the other carrying an axe and gun.
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