rodsman

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English

Etymology

From rod +‎ -s- +‎ man.

Noun

rodsman (plural rodsmen)

  1. One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.
    • G. W. Cable
      Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rodsman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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