ground man
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A man who works at an airfield as a member of the groundcrew.
noun
A man who works from the ground alongside others who climb or work on a lift, ladder, hoist, etc.
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The ground man and I were stepping through the checklist."
- "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."
- "The above list is by no means exhaustive but outlines the ways in which a ground man may affect the performance of a climber."
- "With Cowboy acting as his ground man he started climbing a corner of the cabin where logs overlapped in a locking pattern."
- "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."