rodsman
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
rodsman (plural rodsmen)
- Someone who carries and holds a levelling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.
- Synonym: rodman
- 1883, G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days:
- Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
- A fisherman.
- 1886, Fishing, Fish Culture & the Aquarium, page 250:
- […] a heavy basket of twenty-seven was landed by one rodsman.
Translations edit
one who holds a levelling staff
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References edit
- “rodsman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.