section hand
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of section hand
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Business Career: During summer vacations from college, worked as a clerk and section hand on the family's Union Pacific.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1945 Lewis Johnson moved his growing family of three boys and two girls to California, where he caught on as a section hand for the Southern Pacific.
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
Young Thad did farm work at 7, sweated as a railroad section hand, sold patent medicines, taught school.
From Time Magazine Archive
Maybe some section hand stuck a feather of that eagle in his hat and called it macaroni!
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
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