navvy
Example Sentences
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They helped build the C&O Canal and worked as navvies, or laborers, in its port.
From Washington Post
He leaves for a better life with his mother’s brother in Leeds, where he becomes a navvy.
From The Guardian
Prof Rotherham said it may have originally arrived with Welsh "navvies digging out the cuttings for the canal systems".
From BBC
By 1917, when navvies poured in and construction started on an inland railway to the north, widespread food shortages had led to violent workers’ demonstrations and a near mutiny among the army units.
From The Guardian
The scale of the work can be judged by the group of navvies gathered in the bottom right of the picture.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
