Noun:

ड्रैजेर, कुदाली-मज़दूर, बेलदार,

navvies's Usage Examples:

navvyo picturesque Settle to Carlisle railroad, a great feat of engineering, built by the Irish navvies in the 19thC.

navvyitionally the prostitutes from those streets were kept busy by the clientele from the many navvies employed upon the tramway.

navvyis at this stage that some suggest that all the navvies engaged in a pitched battle in the otherwise quiet town of Havant.

In soft material the excavation may be performed by mechanical excavators or " steam navvies," while in hard it may be necessary to resort to blasting.

Long iron picks (16), like those of moderp navvies, were made by Greeks in the XXVIth Dynasty.

The line was designed, surveyed and constructed by Turkish engineers - employing Ottoman navvies and labourers - in a highly efficient and economical manner, the average cost per mile having been £3230, although considerable engineering difficulties had to be overcome, especially in the construction of the Haifa branch.

6d., stone-masons 1 is 6d., plasterers 12s., painters 11s., blacksmiths ros., and navvies and general labourers 8s., and work was very plentiful.

The contract for building the railway was put in the hands of Thomas Brassey; English navvies were largely employed on the work, and a number of English engine-drivers were employed when traffic was begun in 1843.

So far as their earnings do not exceed 150 perannum, thefollowin~ classes are under the legal obligation to insure: laborers in mines quarries,dockyards,wharves, manufactories and breweries; bricklayers and navvies; post-office, railway, and naval and military servants and officials; carters, raftsmen and canal hands; cellarmen, warehousemen; stevedores; and agricultural laborers.

The Italian colony now numbers about 2500 (chiefly navvies and masons), in addition to some 1400 Austrian subjects of that nationality.

Synonyms:

manual laborer, labourer, jack, laborer, galley slave, drudge, peon,

Antonyms:

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