Definition of "rodsman"

rodsman

noun
plural rodsmen
1. Someone who carries and holds a levelling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.
  Quotations
  Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
  1883, G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days
2. A fisherman.
  Quotations
  […] a heavy basket of twenty-seven was landed by one rodsman.
  1886, Fishing, Fish Culture & the Aquarium, page 250