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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 acrew whichcarries rails andaffixes them toties .
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- noun a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Origin unknown.]
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