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trackman

[trak-muhn] / ˈtræk mən /


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The coaches in Tacoma have charted almost everything with the aid of trackman and rapsodo as well.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2020

Kenneth started as a trackman, replacing heavy wooden ties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2016

In spite of his sedentary occupation, father Muskie was a confirmed outdoorsman at heart, and Ed became an enthusiastic fisherman, a good skier and a competent trackman in school.

From Time Magazine Archive

In five previous appearances in a nationwide tour for the benefit of the Finnish Relief Fund, he had looked like an average U. S. trackman.

From Time Magazine Archive

“GOING TO RUN—” With a plunge the big trackman reached up and caught him by the ankle, wrenched him back from the lantern, and clambered up beside him.

From The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity by Francis Lovell Coombs

Come April showers, August heat waves, fall fogs or winter blizzards, the trackmen pull on spikes and practice every day of the year, and always amid a gaggle of trainers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Performances rarely match those outdoors, partly because few trackmen are in top form during the winter, partly because some events are a whole lot harder indoors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Until 1937, when Yale changed its mind, basketball lettermen had to be content with a two-inch minor-sport "Y" instead of five-inchers given to crewmen, footballers, baseballers and trackmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Italy, which has surprisingly produced a small army of capable trackmen, has a 1,500-meter hope in Francesco Arese, a black-mustachioed teacher who runs 25 to 30 kilometers a day through the traffic of Turin.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trackmen and the wreck crews were all night in the most dangerous portions of the road.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker


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