Chainman

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who uses a chain or measuring tape.

    "It was the chainman's job to drag the twenty-two-yard chain with its hundred links with which the world was measured."

Example

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"It was the chainman's job to drag the twenty-two-yard chain with its hundred links with which the world was measured."

Etymology

From chain + -man.

Related phrases

measuring tape

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