Crossword clues for platelayer
Wiktionary
n. (context UK rail transport English) A railway employee who inspects and maintains the permanent way of a railway installation.
WordNet
n. a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks [syn: tracklayer]
Wikipedia
A platelayer or trackman is a railway employee whose job is to inspect and maintain the permanent way of a railway installation.
The term derives from the plates used to build plateways, an early form of railway.
Usage examples of "platelayer".
His father is a platelayer on the London and Great Midland Railway, and Whittaker is one of the Guinea-pig boys.
The little daughters of the fur-traders, the government officials, the station masters, wheeltappers and platelayers will flock to the conservatory, and, besides, what untold talent might not be discovered amongst the children of the native Siberian peasants themselves?
It was true that a gang of platelayers was there, and that they had seen nothing, but it was their custom to stand in the middle between the metals, and the open carriage door was upon the far side, so that it was conceivable that someone might have alighted unseen, as the darkness would by that time be drawing in.
Platelayers, miners, masons, bricklayers, carpenters, and blacksmiths—all that sort of thing.