"sectionman" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From section + man.",
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    {
      "form": "sectionmen",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
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            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "text": "1916, Annual Report of the Public Utilities Commission, State of Maine, Sentinel Publishing Company https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hi1FAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA56&lpg=RA2-PA56&dq=%22sectionman%22&source=bl&ots=i9BCwYgdC9&sig=d72pK2gH6efsfs4_I_v6M619s-g&hl=no&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT1uqotJ_dAhXCCMAKHfhZCTE4ChDoATAEegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=%22sectionman%22&f=false\n... a sectionman was killed when his motor velocipede was struck by an extra freight on a curve; a sectionman was crushed between two cars when working on a track left unprotected; a sectionman was struck by a shifting engine; …",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co. (photo caption)",
          "text": "Sectionmen step back to admire a T&P Texas in West Texas as the 2-10-4 comes charging up bad Baird Hill.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2013, Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives, by Peter Unwin, Dundum",
          "text": "Being on the engine when the engineer applied the brakes I asked why he was stopping and he said \"there's a sectionman fighting with a wolf\". So I backed up to the spot and the fireman and I jumped off with pick and shaker bar. I hit the wolf on the head with the pick and fireman Grier hit it with the shaker bar. This finished the wolf.",
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        }
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        "a railroad worker who maintains and patrols the track."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "railroad",
          "railroad"
        ],
        [
          "worker",
          "worker"
        ],
        [
          "track",
          "track"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, US, Canada) a railroad worker who maintains and patrols the track."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "sectionman"
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  "etymology_text": "From section + man.",
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    {
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Rail transportation"
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          "text": "1916, Annual Report of the Public Utilities Commission, State of Maine, Sentinel Publishing Company https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hi1FAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA56&lpg=RA2-PA56&dq=%22sectionman%22&source=bl&ots=i9BCwYgdC9&sig=d72pK2gH6efsfs4_I_v6M619s-g&hl=no&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT1uqotJ_dAhXCCMAKHfhZCTE4ChDoATAEegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=%22sectionman%22&f=false\n... a sectionman was killed when his motor velocipede was struck by an extra freight on a curve; a sectionman was crushed between two cars when working on a track left unprotected; a sectionman was struck by a shifting engine; …",
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          "ref": "1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co. (photo caption)",
          "text": "Sectionmen step back to admire a T&P Texas in West Texas as the 2-10-4 comes charging up bad Baird Hill.",
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        },
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          "text": "Being on the engine when the engineer applied the brakes I asked why he was stopping and he said \"there's a sectionman fighting with a wolf\". So I backed up to the spot and the fireman and I jumped off with pick and shaker bar. I hit the wolf on the head with the pick and fireman Grier hit it with the shaker bar. This finished the wolf.",
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        "a railroad worker who maintains and patrols the track."
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        ],
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          "railroad",
          "railroad"
        ],
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          "worker",
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        ],
        [
          "track",
          "track"
        ]
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        "(rail transport, US, Canada) a railroad worker who maintains and patrols the track."
      ],
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        "US"
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  "word": "sectionman"
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