section boss
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of section boss
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Finder of the Minnesota maid was one P. F. Stary, sharp-eyed section boss.
From Time Magazine Archive
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)
Onct I worked under a section boss over on the Great Northern what talked words like them.
From 'Me--Smith' by Hoskins, Gayle Porter
The section boss let Malcolm and me ride up and down on it all afternoon one day this winter.
From Two Little Knights of Kentucky by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
Why, there's the section boss, his wife—you know her—she does the washin' for most everybody.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson
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