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steeplejack
May. 20th, 2024 07:38 amsteeplejack (STEE-puhl-jak) - n., a person who climbs steeples, smokestacks, or other towers, to build, paint, repair, or clean them.
Such as high-rise window-washers:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
Steeplejacks may do their work on ropes, either single-seat or a small platform, or using scaffolding. So named in the time when church steeples were the most common tall structures -- the -jack part comes from English usage of the common name to mean a person.
---L.
Such as high-rise window-washers:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
Steeplejacks may do their work on ropes, either single-seat or a small platform, or using scaffolding. So named in the time when church steeples were the most common tall structures -- the -jack part comes from English usage of the common name to mean a person.
---L.
