pipeliner

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pipeline +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

pipeliner (plural pipeliners)

  1. One who works on oil pipelines.
    • 2009 March 27, Bill Friskics-Warren, “Dan Seals, 61, Pop Duo’s England Dan, Dies”, in New York Times[1]:
      Danny Wayland Seals was born Feb. 8, 1948, in McCamey, Tex. His father, an amateur guitarist who performed with Bob Wills and Ernest Tubb, worked as a pipeliner in the oil fields of West Texas. Mr. Seals’s older brother, Jim Seals, played in fiddle championships as a child and later had several pop hits as part of the 1970s duo Seals & Crofts.