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
Cainan	KAY-nən (English), kay-IE-nən (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin
Haskel	-	Yiddish
Wolfe	[wulf]
Helmut	HEL-moot (German)	German, Ancient Germanic
Henrika	hen-REE-kah	Swedish
Nikolaos	-	Ancient Greek, Greek