gandy dancer

old fashioned A worker in a railway gang who lays and maintains railroad tracks. My grandaddy worked as a gandy dancer building the first stretch of railroads across the state.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gerarda	je-RAHR-dah (Italian)	Italian, Dutch
Archbald	['a:tʃbɔ:ld]
Daly	['deili]
Parastoo	-	Persian
Brita	BRIT-ah (Swedish), BREE-tah (Finnish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Kjersti	-	Norwegian