Lineman

1. n. A man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph lines.
2. n. One who carries the line in surveying, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.