"section gang" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "section gangs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "section-gang",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "section gang (plural section gangs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              226,
              239
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1875, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, volume 3, page 115:",
          "text": "[This dangerous portion of the line] was divided into patrols from three-fourths to one mile in length, and watchmen were put on night and day, to walk over the track after every train, to look out for broken rails, while the section gangs were held in readiness at all times to repair or replace any breakages.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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            [
              114,
              126
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 9, in Arrowsmith, page 97:",
          "text": "They are not permanently tramps. They have home towns to which they return, to work quietly in the factory or the section-gang for a year—for a week—and as quietly to disappear again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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            [
              47,
              59
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          ],
          "ref": "1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 9, in The Adventures of Augie March, page 168:",
          "text": "These [free riders] made a ragged line, like a section gang that draws aside at night back of the flares as a train comes through, only much more numerous.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A railroad maintenance crew."
      ],
      "id": "en-section_gang-en-noun-xfOHP9xo",
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        [
          "railroad",
          "railroad"
        ],
        [
          "maintenance",
          "maintenance"
        ],
        [
          "crew",
          "crew"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "section gang"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "section gangs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "section-gang",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "section gang (plural section gangs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
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            [
              226,
              239
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1875, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, volume 3, page 115:",
          "text": "[This dangerous portion of the line] was divided into patrols from three-fourths to one mile in length, and watchmen were put on night and day, to walk over the track after every train, to look out for broken rails, while the section gangs were held in readiness at all times to repair or replace any breakages.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              114,
              126
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 9, in Arrowsmith, page 97:",
          "text": "They are not permanently tramps. They have home towns to which they return, to work quietly in the factory or the section-gang for a year—for a week—and as quietly to disappear again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              47,
              59
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 9, in The Adventures of Augie March, page 168:",
          "text": "These [free riders] made a ragged line, like a section gang that draws aside at night back of the flares as a train comes through, only much more numerous.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A railroad maintenance crew."
      ],
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        [
          "railroad",
          "railroad"
        ],
        [
          "maintenance",
          "maintenance"
        ],
        [
          "crew",
          "crew"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "section gang"
}