gangman
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gangman (plural gangmen)
- (chiefly India and Africa) A member of a work gang; a laborer, often on railways.
- 1947 September and October, “By Northern Pacific to Seattle”, in Railway Magazine, page 270:
- Heavy snowfalls are prevalent in winter on the higher sections. Three rotary ploughs are stationed on the mountain length, and dozer-ploughs, scrapers, and several hundred extra gangmen are called in to assist when necessary.