steeplejack
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A person who climbs and fixes very tall buildings like church towers
- noun
- /ˈstiːpəlˌdʒæk/
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trabajador de torres
- After training for several months, she became a skilled steeplejack, able to handle the tall structures safely.
Examples
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She and Ed had worked as steeplejacks together before they both moved down from the North in search of work.
Fiction book (1999) -
He works as a steeplejack, climbing to great heights to repair church steeples.
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The steeplejack carefully maneuvered around the chimney to fix the broken bricks.
Surface Forms
steeplejack singular
steeplejacks plural
Morphology
Etymology
The word steeplejack comes from two parts: steeple, meaning 'church tower', and jack, a common name used to mean a man or worker, as in lumberjack. So a steeplejack is literally a 'man who works on steeples', which is why it means someone who builds or repairs very tall towers and chimneys.