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Definition of Chainman
1. a surveyor's assistant who uses a measuring chain [n CHAINMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chainman
Literary usage of Chainman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Railroad Curves and Earthwork by Calvin Francis Allen (1920)
"The Head chainman carries a "flag" and the forward end of the tape, ... Signals from
the Head chainman. Setting the bottom of flag on the ground and waving ..."
2. Field Engineering: A Hand-book of the Theory and Practice of Railway by William Henry Searles (1901)
"Tlie head chainman drags the chain, and carries a flag which is put into line at
the end of each chain length by the assistant engineer or the ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"One man, called the head.chainman, carries ten of the marking pins and the ...
The rear.chainman takes the eleventh pin and the other end of the chain. ..."
4. A Text-book of Plane Surveying by William Galt Raymond, Charles Winthrop Crockett (1896)
"One pin is left with the rear chainman. As the head chain- man walks out, he
places one ... When the chain is almost out, the rear chainman calls "Chain. ..."
5. The Field Practice of Railway Location by Willard Beahan (1904)
"He should be of the same grade of man as the head chainman, rodman and boss ...
It is easier to fill the place of cook than that of rodman or head chainman. ..."
6. A Manual of Field and Office Methods for the Use of Students in Surveying by William David Pence, Milo Smith Ketchum (1910)
"The head chainman casts the chain out to the rear, and after setting one marking
... The rear chainman allows the chain to pass through his hands to detect ..."
7. Manual of Surveying for Field and Office by Raymond Earl Davis (1915)
"(i) Having set a flag pole at one end of the line B, the rear chainman goes to
... (2) The head chainman with a flag pole, ten pins, and the zero end of the ..."
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