Definition of Navvy. Meaning of Navvy. Synonyms of Navvy

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Definition of Navvy

Navvy
Navvy Nav"vy, n.; pl. Navies. [Abbreviated fr. navigator.] Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc. [Eng.]

Meaning of Navvy from wikipedia

- Navvy, a clipping of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (US), is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering...
- from 1909, this machine – Ruston's called it a 'crane navvy' – is the oldest surviving steam navvy in the world. It was originally used at a chalk pit at...
- an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing. MacGill was born in Glenties...
- navvies, co-founded the Navvy Mission Society in 1877, along with the Rev. Lewis Moule Evans. This missionary effort was funded by Garnett's "navvy novels"...
- The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the United States Navy's primary special operations force and...
- Brown in the Manchester version. The picture depicts a group of so-called "navvies" digging up the road to build a tunnel. It is typically ****umed that this...
- railway construction foreman) offended an Irish navvy working on the line. The English and Irish navvies were segregated as was usual; the Irish were in...
- in 1889 by Andrew Hall and Arthur Humphrey in West Ham, late in 1889, Navvies, Bricklayers' Labourers and General Labourers' Union. John Ward had been...
- Quaintain, a widow with teenage children Hans Matheson as Johnny Jackson, a navvy, later discovered to be John Blackwood Clarke Peters as Ralph Coates, a...
- Rallarvegen (English: The Navvy Road) is a construction/access road in central Norway that is now po****r as a recreation trail for bicyclists. It was...