head linesman

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   a football official in charge of recording yardage gained or lost

   Broaderfootball official

Questions about head linesman

What does head linesman mean?

head linesman means "a football official in charge of recording yardage gained or lost".

Is head linesman a common word?

head linesman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.