Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who builds or maintains very high structures, such as steeples.
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- noun A person whose job involves climbing tall structures like
steeples .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who builds or maintains very tall structures
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Examples
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St. Mark's repair estimate replacing water-laden timbers and rotting boards on the facing, repairing the bell's carriage, and having the nerve and skill to do it all from four stories up on a scaffold came from veteran steeplejack Michael Hardin of Litchfield, Ohio.
Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011
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St. Mark's repair estimate replacing water-laden timbers and rotting boards on the facing, repairing the bell's carriage, and having the nerve and skill to do it all from four stories up on a scaffold came from veteran steeplejack Michael Hardin of Litchfield, Ohio.
Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011
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To Jim Phelan, a third-generation steeplejack in Pacifica, Calif., knocking off a steeple just doesn't look right.
Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011
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To Jim Phelan, a third-generation steeplejack in Pacifica, Calif., knocking off a steeple just doesn't look right.
Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011
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To Jim Phelan, a third-generation steeplejack in Pacifica, Calif., knocking off a steeple just doesn't look right.
Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011
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St. Mark's repair estimate replacing water-laden timbers and rotting boards on the facing, repairing the bell's carriage, and having the nerve and skill to do it all from four stories up on a scaffold came from veteran steeplejack Michael Hardin of Litchfield, Ohio.
Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker 2011
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Somewhere above meperhaps at the very top of this tower, where the di Caela banner fluttered red and blue and white in the last hour before some steeplejack of a servant clambered up to lower it for the eveninga nightingale began its dark serenade of stars and moons.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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So, when I had finished my steeplejack duties, I lowered my saw to the ground.
No Ordinary Utensil 2009
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My favourite Superman comic book stories are Kingdom Come it's essentially a Superman story, and it was a bright spot in the mid 90s when I was otherwise unable to collect comics, the 50s story where Superman goes undercover as a steeplejack to get dirt on a shady construction kingpin, Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite, the Superman/Spider-Man 70s crossovers, Up, Up, and Away... there's too many more I could name.
Happy 70th Birthday, Superman!! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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It would be like saying you were a steeplejack who was afraid of heights.
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