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Answer for the clue "Grid official ", 8 letters:
linesman

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Word definitions for linesman in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
redirect Lineman

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
linesman \linesman\ n. the official (in tennis or soccer) who watches the lines. a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines. Syn: electrician, lineman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, "soldier in a regiment of the line," from genitive of line (n.) + man (n.). Sports sense, in reference to umpires with specific duties in games with lines (originally tennis, also ice hockey) is from 1890.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. official (in tennis or soccer or football) who assists the referee is some way (especially by watching for off-sides or out of bounds) a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician , lineman ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context football dated English) An assistant referee. 2 (context tennis dated English) A male line judge. 3 (context ice hockey English) An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside. 4 (context ...

Usage examples of linesman.

There was a linesman who heaved over a weight and called out the clearage existing below, and the captain of the craft stood by the wheel as intent on those calls as we were in surveying the islands.

A battalion of linesmen stand blandly alert in their blazers and safari hats, hands folded over their slacks' flies.

Handlers looked anxiously at the stitching, linesmen tested their holds.

Cwicca glanced at his linesmen standing by the windward rail, almost crowded overboard by the immense spread of canvas facing into the wind, but each maintaining tension and ready to pay out line.

The linesmen felt the tug, paid out line gently, carefully, each man striving to keep resistance without drag.

The kite began to turn up, the two linesmen controlling that began to try to edge the top frame down, at the same instant Shef worked his own correction.

The Football Association’s rationale is that the Cup Final is for everybody involved with football, not just the fans, and it’s not a bad one: it is, I think, quite reasonable to invite referees and linesmen and amateur players and local league secretaries to the biggest day in football’s year.

Judge, just one of those units, if activated, could disrupt your communications, overload your amplifiers and crip¬ple or kill your linesmen just like that.

He knew the Company linesmen hunting for the first break in the line would be getting close to it by now, and there may be somebody in the telegraph office in Bulawayo anxious to send a report to Mr.

There are two Company linesmen who have sworn an affidavit before the Administrator in Bulawayo that they saw you personally cutting telegraph lines south of the town on Monday the fourth at 4 p-m.

Someone is obviously hunting your energy trail very hard through your linesmen, Yonnie.

Gunners and sappers, linesmen and dragoons, came bowing and bobbing into the little parlour, with clatter of side arms and clink of spurs, stretching their long legs across the patchwork rug, and hunting in the front of their tunics for the screw of tobacco or paper of snuff which they had brought as a sign of their esteem.