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navvy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | drudge, galley slave, peon |
| Type of | jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer |
Examples of navvy
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The muscular blond navvy at its centre is a fine specimen of English manhood.
From the telegraph.co.uk
They have the work ethic of a navvy and the geometric vision of Da Vinci or Galileo.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
To his right an older navvy is seen shovelling unsifted lime into a sieve.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A navvy on right, swigging beer, emphasises their rejection of teetotalism.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A hodcarrier, visible behind the main navvy, is transporting bricks down into the hole.
From the en.wikipedia.org
She was so polite and well-heeled, he said, but cursed like a navvy.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Irish property market has sunk faster than a pint of Guinness in the hands of a thirsty navvy.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Dr. Burns predicted under rationalisation a decrease in heavy labour and the disappearance of the navvy, less beer drinking, and less bread eating.
From the guardian.co.uk
A navvy received between $1 and $2.50 per day, but had to pay for his own food, clothing, transportation to the job site, mail and medical care.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Drudge: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
- Navvy is a shorter form of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (USA) and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects. ...
- A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad
- (NAVVIES) Laborers, especially those employed in construction or excavation projects.
- (Navvies) Navigationalists; the work-force that built the canals.
- A laborer in the excavation and construction of a road or railway
- Short for navigators, the men who dug the first inland navigations or canals. They lasted from the 1760s to the 1940s as a distinct and separate underclass of people with their own way of life and mode of dress. Essentially they were skilled at moving earth and rock by hand. ...
- Labourer employed in excavating etc. for canals, railways, roads, etc.
- A manual laborer. Laborers building the British canal systems were called navvies because the canals were referred to as "navigations".
