sandhog
Americannoun
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a laborer who digs or works in sand.
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a person who works, usually in a caisson, in digging underwater tunnels.
noun
Etymology
Origin of sandhog
Example Sentences
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He has been a sandhog for 40 years and runs what is called the hog house, a trailer parked at Second Avenue and 87th Street where workers change clothes and take breaks.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2012
McGinty is a sandhog, one of the New York City miners of Local 147, who got their start planting the caissons for the Brooklyn Bridge nearly 150 years ago.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2012
Still, Mr. O’Brien insisted that this job was one of the dirtiest he had encountered in his time as a sandhog, or tunnel worker.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2011
Fleeing school in Ireland at 14, he went to the U.S., worked as bootblack, sandhog, hotelclerk, cowboy, became a lawyer and a U.S. citizen.
From Time Magazine Archive
A riveter, a sandhog, a bush league pitcher, Regular Army Sergeant, a worker in the steel mills, a miner, a railroad engineer, a hoofer in the three-a-day—where are their stories?
From Time Magazine Archive
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