Definitions

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  • noun One who works on oil pipelines.

Etymologies

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pipeline +‎ -er

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Examples

  • His father, John, a pipeliner, and his mother, Mae, refinanced their home to get to Torino.

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  • John Polo, a pipeliner from Cass Lake, Minn., says he likes to sip beers to calm his nerves.

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  • Over the years he worked as a landman for Sinclair Oil Company, pipeliner, land surveyor, newspaper reporter, college English professor, social worker on Skid Row in Los Angeles, clerk for the Louisiana Employment Service, and instructor in the U. S. Job Corps.

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  • Over the years he worked as a landman for Sinclair Oil Company, pipeliner, land surveyor, newspaper reporter, college English professor, social worker on Skid Row in Los Angeles, clerk for the Louisiana Employment Service, and instructor in the U. S. Job Corps.

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  • My father was a natural gas pipeliner and derrick man on drilling rigs out in the Gulf, but he considered industrial work, with regular hours and paychecks, a vacation.

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  • My father was a natural gas pipeliner and derrick man on drilling rigs out in the Gulf, but he considered industrial work, with regular hours and paychecks, a vacation.

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  • The owner was named Tee Neg. He was an old-time pipeliner and oil-field roughneck who looked like a mulatto and who had three fingers pinched off by a drilling chain.

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  • The owner was named Tee Neg. He was an old-time pipeliner and oil-field roughneck who looked like a mulatto and who had three fingers pinched off by a drilling chain.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • The owner was named Tee Neg. He was an old-time pipeliner and oil-field roughneck who looked like a mulatto and who had three fingers pinched off by a drilling chain.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • The owner was named Tee Neg. He was an old-time pipeliner and oil-field roughneck who looked like a mulatto and who had three fingers pinched off by a drilling chain.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

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