chainman
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- noun
- Archaic
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medidor
- As a dedicated chainman, he ensured that all measurements were precise and reliable.
Examples
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During the land survey, the surveyor relied on the chainman to measure the distances accurately.
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Eugene's my chainman.
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"There was a parade," the chainman said.
Fiction book (1999) -
There was a court-martial, the chainman said.
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The chainman was brewing tea.
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The chainman returned to work, leaving Max haunted and uneasy.
Fiction book (1999) -
An Indian atrocity to match the British one: Cawnpore, a month after the incident reported by the chainman.
Fiction book (1999) -
The first he heard on a snow bench carved in a drift on a ridge, from an Indian chainman who'd served for a while in the Bengal Army, and who worked as Max's assistant for two weeks, and then disappeared.
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The chainman carefully stretched the tape between the two marked points.
Synonyms
A survey helper who holds a measuring pole to mark points in the field
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word chainman comes from the two simple words chain and man, where chain was the metal measuring tool surveyors used and man means 'person'. So a chainman is the person who handles the chain during a land survey, which is why today it still means the surveyor's assistant who measures distances with a chain or tape.