section hand

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   a laborer assigned to a section gang

   Broaderlaborer

   Part ofsection gang

Questions about section hand

What does section hand mean?

section hand means "a laborer assigned to a section gang".

Is section hand a common word?

section hand 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.