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linesmen

linesmen is the plural of linesman.

Meaning of linesman

Noun

linesman (plural linesmen)

  1. An assistant referee.
    • A linesman replaced injured referee Rebecca Welch after 50 minutes and with no other official present, qualified referee Pattison, 60, ran the line.2015 November 18, “Steven Pattison: Carlisle United director runs line in FA Youth Cup”, in BBC Sport
  2. (dated) A male line judge.
  3. An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.
  4. An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation.
  5. A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
  6. A private in the line.

Phrases with linesmen

Questions about linesmen

What is linesmen the plural of?
Linesmen is the plural of linesman.

Words near linesmen in the dictionary

  1. lineside
  2. linesider
  3. linesiders
  4. linesides
  5. linesman
  6. linesmen
  7. linespace
  8. linespaces
  9. linespacing
  10. linespeed
  11. linespeeds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: linesmen (page history and authors); linesman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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