navvy in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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A church was built alongside the village glebelands in 1843 to serve the local miners, quarrymen and railway navvies.
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The line was one of the earlier built with the aid of steam navvies.
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The navvies had been brought in to help construct the railway, and fighting broke out between them and the locals on a number of occasions.
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The factory took 10,000 navvies to build it, and employed 30,000 workers, mostly women.
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However, sailors had their own bedding to unroll onto the bare bunk or hammock, whereas many navvies may have had little of their own.
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The same field also has grassed-over rubble remaining from cottages built by the construction navvies.
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The navvies lived where they could, in huts or crevices in the rock.
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A single track runs through the middle (it would eventually have two lines) while the workers (navvies) gather in the mid-distance under a shaft.
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The oldest child, wearing borrowed clothing too old for her, tries to control her wayward brother, who is playing with the navvies' wheelbarrow.
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The labourers were known as navvies and built much of the early infrastructure in the province.
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