navvy 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. It is not the Clodhopper, the navvy or the labourer, the careless or the incompetent, who suffer from them

2. ‘He is a man of plain words, impatient with metaphor, fascinated by the structure of the land and evidence of early attempts to cultivate and Civilise it.’ ‘Social reformers believed that carefully designed settlements would curb many of these excesses, help to Civilise the navvy and improve his work rate.’

3. ‘He is a man of plain words, impatient with metaphor, fascinated by the structure of the land and evidence of early attempts to cultivate and Civilise it.’ ‘Social reformers believed that carefully designed settlements would curb many of these excesses, help to Civilise the navvy and improve his work rate.’