Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A worker employed to inspect a section of railroad track.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trackman who inspects a certain section of railway-track, especially before the passage of very fast trains, to look for breaks or other defects, and to tighten up wedges and nuts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Railroads) A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
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What of the Subway trackwalker, purblind from gloom; the coalstoker, whose fiery tomb is the boiler room of a skyscraper; sweatshop workers, a flight below the sidewalk level, whose faces are the color of dead
The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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The summer crept into autumn; autumn to early winter, bringing with it the transformation of the rickety old Ozark Central to a smooth, well-cushioned line of gleaming steel, where the trains shot to and fro with hardly a tremor, where the hollow thunder of culvert and trestle spoke of sturdy strength, where the trackwalker searched in vain for loose plates or jutting joints; but to Garrity, it was only the fulfilment or the work of a mechanical second nature.
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