lineman

A person who installs and repairs overhead cables (either power or telephone); a linesman.

• In the event of a failure, by the operation of a switch signalmen at the panel boxes can set up flashing white lights on certain signalling apparatus cases spaced at approximately half-mile intervals alongside the line, in order to call the
• […]or even, daring, spent the night up some pole in a lineman's tent like caterpillars, swung among a web of telephone wires, living in the very copper rigging and secular miracle of communication, untroubled by the dumb voltages flickering

A player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage.

Someone who repairs railway tracks.