steeplejack
IPA: stˈipʌɫdʒæk
noun
- A person whose job involves climbing tall structures like steeples in order to make repairs.
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Examples of "steeplejack" in Sentences
- He then relocated to the US as a steeplejack.
- He also worked as a steeplejack and as a barber at a fair.
- Jack Mallard was the first criminal to go by the name Steeplejack.
- He began his working life as a joiner, before becoming a steeplejack.
- It would be like saying you were a steeplejack who was afraid of heights.
- The Steeplejack group of companies has been in business for over 35 years.
- So, when I had finished my steeplejack duties, I lowered my saw to the ground.
- To Jim Phelan, a third-generation steeplejack in Pacifica, Calif., knocking off a steeple just doesn't look right.
- St. Mark's repair estimate replacing water-laden timbers and rotting boards on the facing, repairing the bell's carriage, and having the nerve and skill to do it all from four stories up on a scaffold came from veteran steeplejack Michael Hardin of Litchfield, Ohio.
- Somewhere above meperhaps at the very top of this tower, where the di Caela banner fluttered red and blue and white in the last hour before some steeplejack of a servant clambered up to lower it for the eveninga nightingale began its dark serenade of stars and moons.
- My favourite Superman comic book stories are Kingdom Come it's essentially a Superman story, and it was a bright spot in the mid 90s when I was otherwise unable to collect comics, the 50s story where Superman goes undercover as a steeplejack to get dirt on a shady construction kingpin, Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite, the Superman/Spider-Man 70s crossovers, Up, Up, and Away... there's too many more I could name.