navvynav‧vy /ˈnævi/ noun (plural navvies) [countable] British English 
Word Origin
Word OriginWORD ORIGINnavvy
ExamplesOrigin:
1800-1900 navigator ‘someone who digs canals’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
word sets- And hard labour ... the railway navvies remembered by a rock band.
- Even today's less hungry navvies will surely object to this soon.
- Mr Beavis was a navvy, and his sons worked at the Bermondsey shunting yards of the railway.
- Mrs Chambers must think she was feeding a navvy!
- Sorting the linen, the towels, the sheets, the red handkerchiefs, such as the navvies use.
- The navvies and the bricklayers, masons and blacksmiths, would troop off to other masters.
- The farmer had taken his Bible beneath his arm and visited the navvies earlier in the week.
- When the farm chores ended each day, Seb would often make his way to the camp of the road-building navvies.
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