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- noun Plural form of
steeplejack .
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Examples
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Such persons were also called steeplejacks, and they were paid liberally for their exploits, as they deserved to be.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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So with men who work in high places or where there is risk, such as steeplejacks, bridge builders, iron workers, engineers; let an accident happen to them, or let there occur an exhausting disease with its aftermath of neurasthenia, and the self-esteem and self-confidence disappear so that in many cases they have to give up their job.
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The "conservatives" so desperate to lose the election could be anything - vicars, trick cyclists, steeplejacks, big game hunters, morris dancers, etc.
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But that's a two-man job involving steeplejacks and grud alone knows what else.
Archive 2009-07-01 DAVID BISHOP 2009
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But that's a two-man job involving steeplejacks and grud alone knows what else.
Entertainment mega-force stopped by... trees DAVID BISHOP 2009
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It was hidden forever among the roofs and butting shoulders of the ancillary wings and was never seen again from the outside except by airmen and steeplejacks.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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In the summer of 1921 the steeplejacks employed to test the lightning conductor found that the iron cramps had rusted to such an extent as to split the stonework.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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"But nothing! nothing!" he went on, "no power on earth -- except it were a whole army of steeplejacks ----"
King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912
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It was not the right and dignified way for a royal accident to happen: falling down-stairs suggested the same failing as that to which steeplejacks were prone.
King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912
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"So do all steeplejacks," said the King, and quoted the _Encyclopedia_:
King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912
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