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lineman
[ lahyn-muhn ]
noun
- Football. one of the players in the line, as a center, guard, tackle, or end.
- Surveying. a person who marks the positions of a survey mark with a range pole or the like.
lineman
/ ˈlaɪnmən /
noun
- another name for platelayer
- a person who does the chaining, taping, or marking of points for a surveyor
- (formerly) the member of a beach life-saving team who controlled the line used to help drowning swimmers and surfers
- American football a member of the row of players who start each down positioned on either side of the line of scrimmage
- another word for linesman
Gender Note
Other Words From
- under·lineman noun plural underlinemen
Example Sentences
“He was a good matchup,” Jones said of Brown, a defensive lineman for his high school football team.
University of Missouri All-American defensive lineman and likely NFL draft pick Michael Sam is gay.
Suppose the “best” football player was an offensive lineman for Youngstown State?
So naturally it turned to a former college-football lineman.
Citi is now betting the lineman can transform into a quarterback.
A lineman was sent out to repair it under escort of civil guards, who were forced by the rebels to retire.
You can make a lineman's holster in the same way, using plastic or soft leather.
Drew turned toward Stockbridge as the lineman shuffled through the portires.
He was a lineman for a telegraph company, healthy and strong, used to open-air life and hard work.
"Anybody ought to know it 'thout being told, you old Rube," growled the lineman, who was from Boggs City.
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