section hand
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of section hand
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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During years of penury in the U. S. he had been a flypaper salesman, riding master, lifeguard, section hand, bundle wrapper, and forest ranger.
From Time Magazine Archive
Business Career: During summer vacations from college, worked as a clerk and section hand on the family's Union Pacific.
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Samuel worked on the farm, hauled wood, became a section hand on the Santa Fe Railroad, taught school.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a jobless railroad section hand at Ashland, Miss. His wife Pearl, 30, had borne him three children, was great with a fourth.
From Time Magazine Archive
He lived in a house belonging to a Mrs. McCoy, the widow of a railroad section hand killed in a railroad accident, who had a daughter.
From Poor White by Anderson, Sherwood
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