lineman

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From line + -man.

"Nobody said she was standing back of the church," said the lineman. — The Daughter of Anderson Crow, George Barr McCutcheon
Beside him, as he hurried off to football practice, strode a big lineman of the junior class, cajoling: "Calm down, son. — The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life, Sinclair Lewis
The district messenger, the telegraph operator, the typewriter, the stenographer, the bookkeeper, the canvasser, the salesman, the commercial traveler, the engineer, the car driver, the hackman, the conductor, the gripman, the brakeman, the electrician, the lineman, the elevator boy, and a host of others, follow trades and occupations which had no existence in the middle of the eighteenth century. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster

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