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Lineman

noun

(pl. linemen)

One of the players on the line of scrimmage.

The surveyor who marks positions with a range pole.

A person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines. Synonyms: electrician, linesman.

(American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage.

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"Lineman" Quotes from Famous Books

... ambitious to get into electrical work that his father, thinking that he was intended for exactly this vocation, consented to his leaving high school and taking a position as assistant to the linemen of a telephone company. He worked at this a year or two, and finally became a full-fledged lineman. He did well as a lineman and after a year or so attracted the attention of an electric light and power company, who enticed him away from the telephone company and gave him charge of poles and wires in a residential district. Here his unusual ingenuity and quickness ...

— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb

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