Word Meanings - TRACKMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.

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• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• SPECIFY
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• TRACKMAN
  One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.
• SPECIFIABLE
  Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
• TRACK-ROAD
  A towing path.
• SPECIFICALNESS
  The quality of being specific.
• SPECIFICATION
  1. The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts. 2. The designation
• SPECIFICATE
  To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify. ir M. Hale.
• SPECIFICAL
  Specific. Bacon.
• TRACKAGE
  The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.
• TRACK
  The entire lower surface of the foot;-said of birds, ect. 4. A road; a beaten path. Behold Torquatus the same track pursue. Dryden. 5. Course; way; as, the track of a comet. 6. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, ect. (more info)
• TRACKER
  In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game. And of the trackers of the deer Scarce half the
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• EMPLOYEE
  One employed by another.
• SPECIFIC
  Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in
• TRACKWAY
  Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• PREEMPLOY
  To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• MISEMPLOYMENT
  Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
• DISEMPLOY
  To throw out of employment. Jer. Taylor.