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Linesman   Listen
noun
linesman  n.  
1.
The official (in tennis or soccer) who watches the lines.
2.
A person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines.
Synonyms: electrician, lineman.





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"Linesman" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'ere," continued the linesman. "I don't want none o' you objector blokes 'anging around this shop, and if you come 'ere again I won't ...
— Mud and Khaki - Sketches from Flanders and France • Vernon Bartlett
... keep a player waiting for an important match to commence while they scour through the crowd for linesmen. These necessary, and I trust useful, accessories to every match of importance should be picked and on hand when the players appear. A good linesman is a great aid to match tennis. A poor one may ruin a great battle. Not only will bad decisions turn the tide by putting a point in the wrong columns, but slow decisions will often upset players, so they dare not play to the line kept by ...
— The Art of Lawn Tennis • William T. Tilden, 2D
... There is certainly one point in which the Dutch soldiers strike the observer as being different from their neighbours. They seem light-hearted and jovial, not at all oppressed by the severe claims of discipline, and at the same time quite free from the slouch that gives the Belgian linesman a ...
— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough


Words linked to "Linesman" :   skilled workman, head linesman, lineman, skilled worker, electrician, trained worker


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