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
Joleen	jo-LEEN	English
Sieuwerd	SOO-ərt	Dutch
Mahoney	['ma:əni]
Philetus	fi-LEE-təs (English), fie-LEE-təs (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin
ŽOfia	-	Slovak
Anzo	-	Ancient Germanic