linesman

1. An assistant referee.

2. (dated)A male line judge.

3. An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.

4. 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.

   a male person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines

6. A private in the line.

1. Neither the referee nor linesman saw the ball cross the goal line.

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2. It was the linesman who signalled the goal, despite the fact he wasn't standing level with the goal line.

   deEs war der Linienrichter, der das Tor anzeigte, trotz der Tatsache, dass er nicht auf der Höhe der Torlinie gestanden hatte.

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