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- noun Plural form of
chainman .
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Examples
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The party included two chainmen, a marker, and a pilot.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The party included two chainmen, a marker, and a pilot.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The party included two chainmen, a marker, and a pilot.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The party included two chainmen, a marker, and a pilot.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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They passed other crews of men, surveyors with transits, chainmen, stake drivers, ax gangs widening the path through the timber.
North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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Tom waited to get from the chainmen the distance to the edge of the wood.
Old Man Savarin and Other Stories Edward William Thomson 1886
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These convicts formed the nucleus of a regular native staff for this department of the Government; and, indeed, up to the time of the abolition of the jail they continued to be employed as chainmen and survey assistants.
Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 W. D. Bayliss 1869
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As one of the chainmen was climbing over a gate one day, a labourer made at him with a pitchfork, and ran it through his clothes into his back; other watchers running up, the chainman, who was more stunned than hurt, took to his heels and fled.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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He in turn charged them with refusing to assist in the surveys, by acting as chainmen, unless they were well paid for it.
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 Egerton Ryerson 1842
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Selectmen of New-Gloucester, of the time of running said lines, that they, said Selectmen may be present if they see fit, and to make returns to the General Assembly of the doings of the said surveyor and chainmen as soon as may be, and the charge and expence of doing the aforesaid service to be paid by the petitioners and their associates.
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