Crossword clues for linesman
linesman
- Referee's assistant
- Court official
- Grid official
- One involved in a faceoff
- 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
- Official in lawn tennis
- Football official
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lineman \Line"man\ (l[imac]n"m[a^]n), n.; pl. Linemen (l[imac]n"m[e^]n).
One who carries the line in surveying, etc.; the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole.
A man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to install or repair telegraph, telephone, television cable, or power lines. Also called linesman.
(Football) A player whose position is in the first (forward) line, as opposed to a back; one who plays on the line of scrimmage. specifically: a center, guard, or tackle.
A ladies' man who is especially adept at inventing effective introductory phrases (pick-up lines) to gain a woman's attention. [Colloq.]
the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage. [WordNet sense 4]
linesman \linesman\ n.
the official (in tennis or soccer) who watches the lines.
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a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines.
Syn: electrician, lineman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 American football English) An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation. 5 A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
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]
Wikipedia
- redirect Lineman
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.