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navvy <-vvies> [ˈnævɪ] N Brit inf

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It was to take many years for the navvies to build this line.
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He was scrupulously fair with his subcontractors and kind to his navvies, supporting them financially at their times of need.
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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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It left 14 workers (or navvies) dead and three injured.
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Some 1,600 navvies and 70 horses were used to build the 18mi km line.
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The navvies lived where they could, in huts or crevices in the rock.
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The line was one of the earlier built with the aid of steam navvies.
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To his right an older navvy is seen shovelling unsifted lime into a sieve.
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One thousand navvies built the viaduct and established shanty towns on the moors for themselves and their families.
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The labourers were known as navvies and built much of the early infrastructure in the province.
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