Usage examples (7)

• The data being given, by a theodolite or otherwise, an intelligent platelayer can easily set out the curve, while the trained engineer proceeds in advance with the...
• Wardell helped to make the present railway, and has worked for fifty-five years as a platelayer on the line.
• When first I met him he was in the railway service, a labourer on the permanent way, what is called a surfaceman in Scotland, a platelayer in England and a milesman in...
• "For a long time there had been a feud between Pritchard and another man of the name of Wynne, a platelayer on the line.