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Linesman

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An assistant referee.

    "A linesman replaced injured referee Rebecca Welch after 50 minutes and with no other official present, qualified referee Pattison, 60, ran the line."

  2. 2
    male official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside) wordnet
  3. 3
    A male line judge. dated
  4. 4
    a male person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines wordnet
  5. 5
    An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.
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  1. 6
    An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation.
  2. 7
    A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
  3. 8
    A private in the line.

Etymology

From line + -s- + -man.

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