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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A railroad worker.
  • noun An itinerant laborer.

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  • noun idiomatic A railway laborer, especially a member of a crew which carries rails and affixes them to ties.

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  • noun a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Origin unknown.]

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