Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who carries and employs a leveling rod under the supervision of a surveyor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man whose duty it is to carry the rod used in surveying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The person who holds the surveying rod for a
surveyor
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Examples
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I might have known more had I actually gotten that summer job, when I was 17 or so, working as a rodman.
My speech to the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association AGM ewillett 2010
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I might have known more had I actually gotten that summer job, when I was 17 or so, working as a rodman.
My speech to the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association AGM ewillett 2010
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The process required teams to coordinate with each other from opposite sides of the canyon, with a rodman, or rigger, perched on one wall holding a fifteen-foot pole with a flag at one end—used to probe to the back of the caves perforating the rock—while a surveyor across the river fixed him in the crosshairs of his camera-equipped theodolite.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The process required teams to coordinate with each other from opposite sides of the canyon, with a rodman, or rigger, perched on one wall holding a fifteen-foot pole with a flag at one end—used to probe to the back of the caves perforating the rock—while a surveyor across the river fixed him in the crosshairs of his camera-equipped theodolite.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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“One young man came down with an appointment as a rodman,” William Karner recalled.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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“One young man came down with an appointment as a rodman,” William Karner recalled.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Between 1865 and 1869, he worked spring, summer, fall, and on one occasion through the winter for the UP as rodman and assistant engineer.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Between 1865 and 1869, he worked spring, summer, fall, and on one occasion through the winter for the UP as rodman and assistant engineer.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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He himself entered the service of the railway at the age of seventeen, when he spent his summer as a rodman at Kenora, Ontario.
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I was well advanced in arithmetic and in mathematics generally, and was confident, even if I was hardly fourteen years old, that I could do the work of a junior rodman.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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