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Definition of Chainmen
1. chainman [n] - See also: chainman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chainmen
Literary usage of Chainmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Engineering: A Handbook of the Theory and Practice of Railway by William Henry Searles, Howard Chapin Ives (1919)
"... to go ahead of the chainmen as far as he can be seen, select his ground, take
his direction by backsight on the last station, and then have the ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz (1913)
"Declarations of surveyors and chainmen.— On the more liberal view which prevails
in some states that the declarations of deceased persons having the means ..."
3. Surveying, as Practiced by Civil Engineers and Surveyors ...: Intended as a by John Whitelaw (1902)
"chainmen.—Two men are required for the chain, a leader and a follower. The more
intelligent of the two should be selected for the follower, as he has to put ..."
4. History of Concord, New Hampshire: From the Original Grant in Seventeen by James Otis Lyford, Amos Hadley, Will B. Howe (1896)
"The surveyors and chainmen returned to us in safety about sundown." The next day,
May 15th, being the Sabbath,—" fair and cool,"— the chaplain of the party, ..."
5. Annual Proceedings: Addresses, Reports, Bibliographies and Discussions (1917)
"In the positions of chainmen and rod- men, the men are located on the division,
... The average time from date of employment as chainmen, until appointed ..."
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