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
German	['dʒə:mən]
Kristoffer	KREES-tof-fer (Finnish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Aleksander	ahl-ek-SAHN-der (Polish)	Polish, Slovene, Albanian, Estonian, Norwegian, Danish
Agda	-	Swedish
Zvi	-	Hebrew
Andris	-	Latvian, Hungarian