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n. - Someone who builds or maintains very tall structures.

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Usage examples (31)
  • It would be like saying you were a steeplejack who was afraid of heights.
  • So, when I had finished my steeplejack duties, I lowered my saw to the ground.
  • 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...
  • London steeplejack Sidney Larkins, whose company used to clean the column.
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