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What is a linesman?

What is a linesman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (soccer) An assistant referee.
  2. (tennis, dated) A male line judge.
  3. (ice hockey) An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.
  4. (American football) An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation.
  5. A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
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Drury went down under Muirhead's tackle from behind and after some frantic flag-waving from the linesman, the referee gave the penalty.
The fourth official saw nothing, the linesman saw nothing, but the referee saw something.
He was offside, says the linesman, and for once in this tournament, the replay agrees.
In the second set, a linesman calls a foot-fault on him and cops a subsequent brat-attack barrage from Lleyton at the end of the game.
The linesman says the ball had earlier gone out of play, which is frankly tosh.
I can understand how the referee didn't spot it, but the linesman must just have been asleep.

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