The position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage

Usage examples of lineman.

In France, a lepidopterist swore a Lineman told her the captives were to be given to fourth-dimension children, as pets.

So it was that Bethel and Toni, themselves still uncast for a play, had the derisive agony of seeing Pete Chew and the lugubriously artistic Harry Mihick rehearsing as the two telegraph linemen.

The lineman looked on with something like devotion, but it was a devotion fragmented by autograph requests.

The linemen had fussed with multimeters and muttered about impedances and capacitances.

Linemen fired out and the ballcarrier just lowered his head and went pounding into the tense rhythmic mass.

At that point Nadia turned her attention to other matters, programming toolmakers, starting robot linemen along the broken pipelines from Chasma Borealis.

Linemen told each other frontier stories, pioneer tales, of ghosts in the net, strange codes or secret trapdoors leading to fantastically detailed alien virtualities, odd conversations with disembodied people with no lookup addresses.

Armorer, and he sidestepped like a quarterback from olden times dodging a rushing defensive lineman, slipping nimbly between trees to the right of the track, out of the line of fire.

Later he went to Brattleboro in his car, and learned there that linemen had found the main cable neatly cut at a point where it ran through the deserted hills north of Newfane.

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.