navvies's Usage Examples:

navvy navvies were rare: 40 was a good age.

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

, and navvies and general labourers 8s.

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.

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

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

A group of navvies appear to be tamping the track on the right-hand side, making it ready to receive trains.

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.

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.

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

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

lower,