Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
section-crew .
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Examples
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Caught red-handed at train-wrecking, and surrounded by twenty hundred infuriated hoboes, that section-gang boss and assistant prepared to meet death.
Two Thousand Stiffs 1907
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The railroad officials tried to copper this play, but fell down, to the mortal terror of the section-boss and one member of the section-gang at Weston.
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Caught red-handed at train-wrecking, and surrounded by two thousand infuriated hoboes, that section-gang boss and assistant prepared to meet death.
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Caught red-handed at train-wrecking, and surrounded by twenty hundred infuriated hoboes, that section-gang boss and assistant prepared to meet death.
Two Thousand Stiffs 1907
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His last job had been as a member of a section-gang on a railroad.
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909
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His last job had been as a member of a section-gang on a railroad.
A Mind That Found Itself Beers, Clifford W. 1908
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It seems less of a slump, when a chap is down on his luck, than to go in for scrubbing or for section-gang hustling.
Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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"Take two men from the section-gang, McTavish," he ordered, "and have them dig her grave here; then swamp a trail through the underbrush and out to the donkey-landing, so we can carry her in.
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