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lengthman
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lengthman [ˈlɛŋkθmən ˈlɛŋθ-]
n pl -men
(Business / Professions) a person whose job it is to maintain a particular length of road or railway line
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Gags implying roadmen, or lengthmen as they were known, did not do a great deal in their working lives were plentiful.
On the road to nowhere; Lengthsmen take a break from leaning on their ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
They were followed in the fatal accident rate league by merchant shipping seamen, aircraft flight deck officers, railway lengthmen, scaffolders, roofers and glaziers, forestry workers, quarry and mine workers, and dockers.
Victims of the cruel sea at work by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Just a year after bringing in a community gang, based on the old lengthmen system in the north-west of the island, highways bosses are preparing to repeat the initiative in two other areas.
Pilot road scheme will be expanded by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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