rodsman

noun — 2 senses

rodsman

noun

Etymology From rod + -s- + man.

1

Someone who carries and holds a levelling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.

Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.1883, G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days:

2

A fisherman.

[…] a heavy basket of twenty-seven was landed by one rodsman.1886, Fishing, Fish Culture & the Aquarium, page 250:

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