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Definition of Groundsmen
1. groundsman [n] - See also: groundsman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Groundsmen
Literary usage of Groundsmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cricket by Allan Gibson Steel, Robert Henry Lyttelton, William Gilbert Grace, Richard Arthur Henry Mitchell, Frederick Gale, Andrew Lang (1898)
"Umpires should themselves measure the ground between the wickets; groundsmen, as
a rule, do this, but they occasionally do it in a careless and slovenly ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Henry Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams (1901)
"... question respecting the desirability of encouraging groundsmen to subject
their wickets to a species of enamelling process—an undoubted source of high ..."
3. The Art of Lawn Tennis by William Tatem Tilden (1922)
"The expense of upkeep is very great, and skilled groundsmen are required at all
clubs that have grass courts. The hard court of clay or dirt, cinder, ..."
4. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1897)
"to the ' Times,' ' The wicket might be every bit as true and free from kicking
as before if only the groundsmen were instructed to have real green grass on ..."
5. Chick Evans' Golf Book by Charles Evans (1921)
"... there was a great fascination in the hay, the horses and the barns to the
small boy with his ever-present club when he went a-visiting the groundsmen. ..."
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