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Definition of Steeplejack
1. Noun. Someone who builds or maintains very tall structures.
Definition of Steeplejack
1. Noun. A person whose job involves climbing tall structures like steeples. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Steeplejack
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steeplejack
Literary usage of Steeplejack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1896)
"THE steeplejack. BY WILFRED WE M LEY. IF I were asked to name the precise psychological
... Here, obviously, is the spirit which makes the steeplejack. ..."
2. Ivory, Apes and Peacocks: Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue by James Huneker (1915)
"... steeplejack " 'steeplejack* is autobiography in a very special sense.
What peculiarly distinguishes Mr. Huneker as a critic is the finely sensitive ..."
3. Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1922)
"1909. Promenades of an Impressionist. 1910. The Pathos of Distance. 1913.
Ivory Apes and Peacocks. 1915. New Cosmopolis. 1915. Unicorns. 1917. steeplejack. ..."
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