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In American English, a lineman is a worker whose job is to fix, install, and take care of power lines or telephone lines, often climbing tall to do it. In American football, a lineman is a player who plays right at the front line of the team, pushing and blocking the other team rather than running with the ball.
電線維修工；(美式足球)線鋒球員
組成line + man (a person who works on or with 'the line').
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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A person who installs and repairs overhead cables (either power or telephone); a linesman.
- In the event of a failure, by the operation of a switch signalmen at the panel boxes can set up flashing white lights on certain signalling apparatus cases spaced at approximately half-mile intervals alongside the line, in order to call the lineman. The lineman can communicate with the signalman by plugging in a hand telephone at any one of these points.
- […]or even, daring, spent the night up some pole in a lineman's tent like caterpillars, swung among a web of telephone wires, living in the very copper rigging and secular miracle of communication, untroubled by the dumb voltages flickering their miles, the night long, in the thousands of unheard messages.
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American-footballball-gamesfootballA player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage.
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Someone who repairs railway tracks.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。