chainman

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chain +‎ -man

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chainman (plural chainmen)

  1. (surveying) One who uses a chain or measuring tape.
    • 2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 8:
      It was the chainman's job to drag the twenty-two-yard chain with its hundred links with which the world was measured.

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