navvies in English
noun
1
a laborer employed in the excavation and construction of a road, railroad, or canal.
Over the decade which followed, it spread to every section of the working class-miners, iron workers, canal navvies , wool and cotton operatives, builders, seamen, land workers.
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1. ‘The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of Bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.’