rodsman

rodman

From rod +‎ -s- +‎ man.

rodsman (plural rodsmen)

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

   Synonym: rodman

   • 1883, G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days:

     Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.

2. A fisherman.
   • 1886, Fishing, Fish Culture & the Aquarium, page 250:

     […] a heavy basket of twenty-seven was landed by one rodsman.

• “rodsman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Damrons, Dormans, Rodmans, mandors, randoms