gandy dancer



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.
See also: dancer

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Michi (1)mee-cheeJapanese
Miles['mailz]
Phile-Ancient Greek
Brook[bruk]
Chandra-Hinduism, Bengali, Indian, Assamese, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Nepali
MeaganMEG-ənEnglish