| 单词 | rigging slinger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrigging slinger rigging slinger n. North American (in logging) an assistant supervisor, reporting to the hook tender, with responsibility for the attaching of logs to the rigging equipment. ΚΠ 1896 K. Munroe Rick Dale xxxv. 241 The mighty tree..is set upon by ‘buckers’ (who saw its great trunk into thirty-foot lengths), barkers, rigging slingers, hand-skidders, and teamsters. 1911 Pacific Monthly Apr. 376/2 The hook-tender, who is the foreman of the rigging crew, sees that the rigging slinger fastens the rigging to the log properly. 1944 S. H. Holbrook Burning Empire 135 A chokerman set a choker around a big blue butt of fir, the rigging slinger shouted ‘Hi!’ and the punk blew the whistle on the yarding engine once. 2005 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 24 Nov. a23 I was part of a three-man crew working directly under the supervision of an experienced rigging-slinger, who directed the chokerman. < as lemmas |
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