section hand
nounRailroads.
a person who works on a section gang.
Origin of section hand
1First recorded in 1870–75
- Also called tracklayer.
Words Nearby section hand
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How to use section hand in a sentence
A new volume in the “Railroad Series,” in which the young section-hand is promoted to a train despatcher.
The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley SmithThe whole thing wasn't any bigger an asset than a job as a section hand on the U P.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyThis man isn't a section hand: he's wearing a uniform; he has a cap; it looks as if he had some right to tell us to stop.
The Boy Scouts of Lakeville High | Leslie W. QuirkBut she has never before been seen in America employed, for instance, as a section hand on a railway.
Mobilizing Woman-Power | Harriot Stanton BlatchMaybe some section hand stuck a feather of that eagle in his hat and called it macaroni!
The Young Alaskans on the Missouri | Emerson Hough
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