Crossword clues for lineman
lineman
- Offensive tackle, e.g
- Football position
- Scrimmage participant
- Utility worker
- Guard, tackle, or center
- Guard, tackle or center
- Certain footballer
- Center or tackle
- Tackle, for one
- Railway track worker
- Power repairer
- NFL tackle, center or guard
- Guy with wires
- Guard, for one
- Guard, e.g
- Guard or tackle
- Center or the guy next to him
- Any of nine guys at a scrimmage
- Center, for one
- Center or end
- Back blocker
- One of the front four
- One of the players on the line of scrimmage
- The surveyor who marks positions with a range pole
- A person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines
- The position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage
- Alex Karras, once
- Guard, e.g.
- Tackle or guard
- Telephone installer
- Football guard or tackle
- NFL position
- Utility-company employee
- American footballer’s mother dressed in hard-wearing fabric
- Menial exercises followed by new railway worker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
linemen \linemen\ n. pl. lineman. the football players who line up on the line of scrimmage. WN hypen is odd for this def.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a person who installs and repairs overhead cables (either power or telephone); a linesman 2 (context American football English) a player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage
WordNet
n. one of the players on the line of scrimmage
the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole
a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician, linesman]
the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage
Wikipedia
In American football and Canadian football, a lineman is a player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage. The linemen of the team currently in possession of the ball are the offensive line, while linemen on the opposing team are the defensive line. A number of NFL rules specifically address restrictions and requirements for the offensive line. The defensive line is covered by the same rules that apply to all defensive players. Linemen are usually the largest players on the field in both height and weight, since their positions usually require less running and more strength than skill positions.
A lineman (American English) or linesman (British English), also occasionally called a lineworker, powerline technician (PLT), or a powerline worker, is a tradesman who constructs and maintains electric power transmission and distribution facilities. The term is also used for those who install and maintain telephone, telegraph, cable TV and more recent fiber optic lines.
The term refers to those who work in generally outdoor installation and maintenance jobs. Those who install and maintain electrical wiring inside buildings are electricians.
Lineman or linesman may refer to:
In personal roles:
- Lineman (technician), one who installs and maintains electrical power, telephone, or telegraph lines
- Lineman (American football), a position in American football
- Assistant referee (association football) or linesman
- Linesmen, officials in ice hockey
- Line umpire, an official in tennis
In other uses:
- " The Lineman", a song composed by Sam Spence for Associated Production Music
- La Linea (TV series) or Lineman, an Italian animated short series
- Linesman/Mediator Air Defence RADAR system
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.