ground man
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]ground man (plural ground men)
- A man who works at an airfield as a member of the groundcrew.
- 2010, Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind:
- Red carted their overnight bags to the plane, and the ground man broke off his conversation with the pilot to stuff them into the nose compartment.
- 2011, Earl Heron, One Desert Jet Turner:
- The ground man and I were stepping through the checklist.
- 2014, Martin W. Bowman, We Were Eagles:
- A ground man is polishing the newly mended nose, rubbing every bit of dirt from it, so that the bombardier may have a good sight of his target.
- A man who works from the ground alongside others who climb or work on a lift, ladder, hoist, etc.
- 1986, The Arboricultural Journal, page 290:
- The above list is by no means exhaustive but outlines the ways in which a ground man may affect the performance of a climber.
- 2010, Dennis Perry, Mad Dog Steel Time, page 76:
- With Cowboy acting as his ground man he started climbing a corner of the cabin where logs overlapped in a locking pattern.
- 2011, Michael Sutton, On the Crest of a Wave:
- Then Robert in the hoist signalled to Larry the 'ground man' and the crane driver lowered them down to the topsail which Ronnie and Robert worked on.
- Alternative form of groundsman
- 1904, The Era Annual, page 41:
- The ground man had pulled up the large tacks when using the mowing machine, and put them into the ground again (anywhere) afterwards.
- 1922, The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes:
- It is surprising how few people outside the regular ground man know how to tend a green.
- 1936, Clarence Rugg Cleveland, Oil Sprays: A Fruit Growers Handbook and Record, page 63:
- The ground man should be trained not to work too close to the tree.
- 2015, Francis Marshall, Football: The Rugby Union Game, page 105:
- As stated above, a man can only play football in good form for a few years, and then he has nothing to fall back upon; whilst a cricketer can retain his form for a long number of years, and when getting on in years he can still be a ground bowler, a teacher of the game, a ground man or an umpire, so that through cricket a man can get genuine occupation for a number of years.