Tackles, e.g.

Usage examples of linemen.

He ordered Colonel Moore, the Senior Field Commander to despatch his linemen to form a defensive perimeter around the wagon train while Stu Barber, the First Engineer, took-a party out to inspect the flood damage.

The seven linemen behind and on either side of her hit the deck, shoved their rifles out in front of them and peered cautiously over the top of the bank.

Harried by a constantly retreating enemy, the linemen were drawn further and further from the river bank.

As Colonel Moore's linemen emerged confidently from under the train and fanned out, firing from the hip, the running, leaping, screaming wave of M'Call Bears burst upon them like the flash-flood upon the train.

The belts and scabbards were quickly stripped from the fallen linemen and clipped around the waists of their proud new owners - of which Motor-Head was one.

The first warning they had that fighting was about to engulf The Lady was an over-the-shoulder glimpse of Colonel Moore's linemen charging down the ramps of the wagons on either side of the flight section.

The Lady would emerge the victor even if she lost most of the linemen now committed to battle.

The most favoured posture was one of aggressive pursuit of hostiles in which the wagon train acted as a mobile fire-base giving close support to its linemen on their overground sorties.

The linemen followed in waves, each turning to cover the retreat of the one behind.

With only one wingman to provide cover, over sixty wounded linemen and another thirty-seven lying under the floor in body-bags, Hartmann decided to head back to one of the main way-stations to seek assistance and await reinforcements.

It's a kind of initiation thing for wet-feet, linemen on their first trip - warriors who have not chewed bone - and the only reason it's done is because you started it.

When we were finished we watched the offensive linemen charge the blocking sled.

Creed walked slowly across the field toward the offensive linemen, who were running wind sprints.

Off to the side the linemen exploded from their stances, each one making his private noise, the chant or urgent breathing of men in preparation for ritual danger.

As he neared the crouching linemen, he came lower still, putting him within range of the sky-hooks.