tracklayer

[ trak-ley-er ]

noun

1. section hand.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tracklayer¹

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65; track + layer

Example Sentences

He also saw the graders, the tracklayers, the spike drivers, and heard the locomotive whistle.

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The railroad tracklayer is now working along regularly at the rate of a mile a day. 

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The Rajah waved a shapely hand toward the opposite embankment, where the tracklayers were idling in silent groups waiting for some one in authority to tell them what to do.

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Under the headlining system of the English newspapers the derailment of a work-train in Arizona, wherein several Mexican tracklayers get mussed up, becomes Another Frightful American Railway Disaster!

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