Definitions
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- noun UK A
railway employee who inspects and maintains thepermanent way of a railwayinstallation .
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- noun a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks
Etymologies
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Examples
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The data being given, by a theodolite or otherwise, an intelligent platelayer can easily set out the curve, while the trained engineer proceeds in advance with the theodolite.
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Wardell helped to make the present railway, and has worked for fifty-five years as a platelayer on the line.
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When first I met him he was in the railway service, a labourer on the permanent way, what is called a surfaceman in Scotland, a platelayer in England and a milesman in Ireland.
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We need a standard so universal that the platelayer may say to the barrister or the duchess, or the Red Indian to the
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"A Blackburn platelayer," it is stated, "who has just died at the age of seventy, left £400, which he had accumulated out of his small earnings.
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Father was killed on the line — he was a platelayer, he was — and mother went on the drink and took up with a horse-racing man.”
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"For a long time there had been a feud between Pritchard and another man of the name of Wynne, a platelayer on the line.
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