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  • noun Plural form of scaler.

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Examples

  • Any weekday morning, the streets would swarm with burly loaders, butchers, scalers, and owners who wore a common uniform of white coats, heavy shoes, and waxed cotton fedoras.

    I Never Was George L. Chieffet 2010

  • Yes | No | Report from J4huntfish wrote 3 days 21 hours ago we are going to the outposts and we are about 15 miles from scalers bay. caught my biggest walleye ever on an ultralight it was 8 pounds. a slip bobber rig works wonders up their caught a 35 in northern it was alot of fun

    hey guys im going to lake lac seul canada at lac seul outposts been their before but this other guy supplied the gear. 2010

  • So when this day presented itself to me and I happened to be in the perfect angle, photographing the rock wall scalers from below, I saw – in a brief second – my Galen Rowell shot develop.

    My Galen Rowell Moment » Dave Brosha Photography 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from J4huntfish wrote 3 days 21 hours ago we are going to the outposts and we are about 15 miles from scalers bay. caught my biggest walleye ever on an ultralight it was 8 pounds. a slip bobber rig works wonders up their caught a 35 in northern it was alot of fun

    hey guys im going to lake lac seul canada at lac seul outposts been their before but this other guy supplied the gear. 2010

  • The first cadres of high scalers were Indian tribesmen accustomed to clambering over mountain crags, or “ex-sailors or circus performers.”

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • The high scalers would write themselves into Hoover Dam legend with acrobatic stunts that grew in the telling.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • The first cadres of high scalers were Indian tribesmen accustomed to clambering over mountain crags, or “ex-sailors or circus performers.”

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • As soon as the smoke and dust cleared the high scalers were again aloft, preparing anchorages for the cofferdam replacing the temporary rock barricade.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • The high scalers would write themselves into Hoover Dam legend with acrobatic stunts that grew in the telling.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • As soon as the smoke and dust cleared the high scalers were again aloft, preparing anchorages for the cofferdam replacing the temporary rock barricade.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

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