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
Aliprand	-	Ancient Germanic
Kfir	-	Hebrew
Shelagh	SHEE-lə	English (Rare)
Pollyanna	pahl-ee-AN-ə (English)	Literature
Eustathius	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Emlyn	-	Welsh