sandhog

ˈsændhɒɡ

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#1·11h ago

(US, slang, also, figuratively) A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water.

Sandhogs working behind a hydraulic shield excavated the riverbed silt inch by inch and installed linking sections of cast-iron tubes as they went. The digging chamber was filled with compressed air pumped in from the surface. The work w…

Origin: [[File:Last shovel gang in the Cascade Tunnel.jpg|thumb|Sandhogs – the last shovel gang – who worked on the Cascade Tunnel, a railroad tunnel near Seattle, Washington, USA, photographed on December 8, 1928.]] From , perhaps alluding to a hog digging in sand. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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(intransitive, US, slang) To work at digging tunnels, or (more generally) underground or under water.

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