section hand
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of section hand
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Young Thad did farm work at 7, sweated as a railroad section hand, sold patent medicines, taught school.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a teenager, he worked two summers as a railroad section hand and got to know poor blacks.
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
Woodruff, who had risen from section hand to president in 36 years with the Erie, bought new diesels for fast freight, streamlined the Erie's creaky business methods, cleared $21.8 million in 1941.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later he went to work as a section hand on a railroad.
From Poor White by Anderson, Sherwood
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