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Meaning of "sandhog" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SANDHOG

sandhog  [ˈsændˌhɒɡ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SANDHOG

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sandhog is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SANDHOG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sandhog

Sandhog is the slang term given to urban miners, construction workers who work underground on a variety of excavation projects in New York City. Generally these projects involve tunneling, caisson excavation, road building, or some other type of underground construction or mining projects. The miners work with a variety of equipment from tunnel boring machines to explosives to remove material for the project they are building. The term is an American colloquialism. Starting with their first job in 1872, the Brooklyn Bridge, the "hogs" have built a large part of the City of New York including the subways and sewers, Water Tunnels No. 1 and No. 2 as well as the currently under construction Water Tunnel No. 3, the Lincoln, Holland, Queens-Midtown, and Brooklyn-Battery tunnels. In addition, they worked on the foundations for most of the bridges and many of the skyscrapers in the city. Many of these workers are Irish or Irish American and West Indian. Sandhogging is often a tradition and is passed down through generations of families; since mining projects span decades, it is not uncommon to find multi-generations of families to work together on the same job.

Definition of sandhog in the English dictionary

The definition of sandhog in the dictionary is a person who works in underground or underwater construction projects.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SANDHOG


cohog
ˈkəʊˌhɒɡ
groundhog
ˈɡraʊndˌhɒɡ
hedgehog
ˈhɛdʒˌhɒɡ
hog
hɒɡ
hogg
hɒɡ
quahaug
ˈkwɑːˌhɒɡ
quahog
ˈkoʊˌhɒɡ
quohog
ˈkwəʊˌhɒɡ
roadhog
ˈrəʊdhɒɡ
seahog
ˈsiːˌhɒɡ
warthog
ˈwɔːthɒɡ
whole-hog
ˌhəʊlˈhɒɡ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SANDHOG

sanderswood
sandfish
sandflies
sandfly
sandglass
sandgroper
sandgrouse
sandheap
sandhi
sandhill
Sandhurst
sandier
sandiest
sandiness
sanding
Sandinista
sandiver
sandless
sandlike
sandling

WORDS THAT END LIKE SANDHOG

chog
gas hog
go the whole hog
live high on the hog
mummichog
puck hog
road hog
shog
water hog
whole hog
wood hedgehog

Synonyms and antonyms of sandhog in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sandhog» into 25 languages

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The translations of sandhog from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sandhog» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

sandhog
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sandhog
570 millions of speakers

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sandhog
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

sandhog
380 millions of speakers
ar

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sandhog
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

sandhog
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mineiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sandhog
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Sandhog
220 millions of speakers

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Sandhog
190 millions of speakers

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Sandhog
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

sandhog
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

굴착 인부
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sandhog
85 millions of speakers
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sandhog
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

sandhog
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Sandhog
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sandhog
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sandhog
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sandhog
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

sandhog
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sandhog
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

sandhog
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

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14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

sandhog
10 millions of speakers
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Trends of use of sandhog

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SANDHOG»

The term «sandhog» is used very little and occupies the 167.158 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SANDHOG» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sandhog

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SANDHOG»

Discover the use of sandhog in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sandhog and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Compressed air magazine: devoted to the useful applications ...
Mr. Jacobs drove the work to completion, in its progress solving novel and most difficult problems, developing the modern methods of tunneling under pneumatic pressure and placing the trade of the sandhog upon a basis of safety.
William Lawrence Saunders, 1919
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LIFE
In the tunnel, the sandhog dies when the river comes in or he blows out, or when a blast or a boulder crushes him. Outside the tunnel, he dies of "the bends," one of the names given to all compressed-air diseases. The bends come from ...
3
Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919: From Greenwich Village ...
SANDHOG. [29 November 1954, Phoenix Theatre, 48 performances] a musical play by Earl Robinson, Waldo Salt based on Theodore Dreiser's story “St. Columbia and the River.” Score: Robinson, Salt (music and lyrics). Cast: Jack Cassidy ...
Thomas S. Hischak, 2011
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Compressed Air
Mr. Jacobs drove the work to completion, in its progress solving novel and most difficult problems, developing the modern methods of tunneling under pneumatic pressure and placing the trade of the sandhog upon a basis of safety.
‎1919
5
Platers' Guide: With which is Combined Brass World
"Sandhog". The Vibrating Machinery Co., 546 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, make a vibrating riddle they name "The Sand- hog." Those who have tried to choke it full of molding and when it is shimmying say it is a mean, thankless job, and too ...
‎1921
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Working Sober: The Transformation of an Occupational ...
See also Sandhog drinking culture transformation Sandhog occupational culture, 61-62; emergence of, 37-42; and employer policies, 41, 70-71, 82; and identity, 59-60, 108-9; and instirutionaliza- tion, 42-45; and kinship-based recruitment, ...
William J. Sonnenstuhl, 1996
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Empire City: New York Through the Centuries
Sandhog,. from. My. Life. and. Loves,. Frank. Harris. (1922). Frank Harris's biography reads like a piece of fiction, and his biographers have never been able to sort out the truth from the legend. Even his place of birth (either Brighton, England, ...
Kenneth T. Jackson, David S. Dunbar, 2002
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Metal Industry
The Sandhog is arranged for lamp socket connection and requires approximately one ampere of either D. C. or Standard 60 cycle A. C. current at 110 or 220 volts. This sifter attracted considerable attention at the exhibition of foundry supplies ...
‎1918
9
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic : the Construction of ...
A thunderous blast ricocheted through the tunnel, the concussive force hurtling the sandhog and thirty nearby men onto the tunnel floor, rocks and dirt cascading down. A carelessly forgotten stick of dynamite. Most of the sandhogs slowly ...
Jill Jonnes, 2007
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The Brass World and Platers Guide
JANUARY, 1922 $1.00 Per Year in U. S. é'llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIl|l||ll||II|l||llllllllllIII| IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllll|llllllllllllllllllllll||llllllIllllIllll||llllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllui THE SANDHOG---EATS Sifts One Ton of Moist Sand Through a Number 2 Riddle in 4 Minutes i > i: <1 tn ...
‎1922

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SANDHOG»

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Novel Or Memoir? New Book Mirrors Author's Family Story
Annabelle is a nursing-home aide who befriends the sandhog, in the novel and in real life. We'll learn more about her in a bit. "Sandhog" is American slang for a ... «WNIJ and WNIU, Jun 15»
2
Go underground with the workers who dig NYC's subterranean tunnels
Since 1872, Union 147 — or the Sandhogs, as they're popularly known — has worked underground to excavate and construct most subterranean infrastructure ... «Business Insider, May 15»
3
No specific plan to close the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's …
A construction worker, also known as a sandhog, climbs down from a hole created AP Photo. A construction worker, also known as a sandhog, climbs down from ... «New York Daily News, Mar 15»
4
My Father's Strength
My father was a New York City tunnel worker (a “sandhog”) and at that time he was working on Roosevelt Island, a 20-minute drive from Barnard's campus. «New York Times, Apr 14»
5
Building Water Tunnel No. 3
Grann went underground with the sandhogs—the men who have devoted their lives to building “an entire city under the city”—and tagged along as they ... «New Yorker, Oct 13»
6
Mighty Quinn: June 5
Freddy Edwards emailed: “This Saturday the Sandhogs of Local 147 will take to the golf course in their annual outing to benefit the Richard Fitzsimmons Sr. «New York Daily News, Jun 13»
7
The spectacular moment sandhogs building train tunnel 120 feet …
Sandhogs burrowing a train tunnel 120 feet beneath lower Manhattan have finished blasting their way into Grand Central Terminal after knocking down an ... «Daily Mail, Apr 13»
8
See it! Sandhogs blow up final piece of bedrock to clear way for …
Fire in the hole! Sandhogs smashed Manhattan bedrock to bits 160 feet below midtown — the last piece of major blasting to create a new link between Long ... «New York Daily News, Apr 13»
9
Tales from the deep with New York 'sandhog'
Tom Petrizzo is a Sandhog, a New York City urban miner. ... the dangers, the mud and the heat, but also the camaraderie that develops among sandhogs. «BBC News, Aug 12»
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Below Ground, Blessing a Fresh Tunnel Where Diggers Risk Their …
Kazimierz Kowalski blessing the Second Avenue subway tunnel on Monday morning before an audience of "sandhogs."Credit Ángel Franco/The New York ... «New York Times, Aug 12»

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