section gang

1. 1.

   a work crew assigned to a section of a railroad

   Broadergang

Questions about section gang

What does section gang mean?

section gang means "a work crew assigned to a section of a railroad".

Is section gang a common word?

section gang is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.