section gang

noun

, Railroads.

1. a group of workers who take care of a section of railroad track.

Word History and Origins

Origin of section gang¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

But the section gang had shoveled away the dirt and gravel from the east-bound track.

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Did you-all hear 'bout that 'Talian Dago that works on the section gang eating a buzzard?

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These fellows were a double-section gang, for the track is double all along here.

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The only men who kept up steady work in and near Carcajou formed the section gang on the railroad.

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A pinch-bar, left carelessly by a section gang, caught in the cylinder-cock rigging and tore it off.

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