section boss

American  

noun

Railroads.

1. the boss of a section gang.

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Etymology

Origin of section boss

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Finder of the Minnesota maid was one P. F. Stary, sharp-eyed section boss.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ladies bowed to the wife of the section boss and to the others as they came in turn.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson

"Listen to——" "Yez have yer nerve wid yez!" observed the section boss caustically.

From The Night Operator by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

Presently the section boss came limping along painfully, and sat down on the bank in the warm spring sunshine.

From Two Little Knights of Kentucky by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

I want them to do the sort of thing you have been doing, each of them to act as section boss, under you, over fifty men.

From Under Handicap A Novel by Gregory, Jackson