Translations for navvy in the English»Serbian Dictionary

nav·vy ['nævi] N Brit old

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navvy

fizikalac m radnik

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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. en.wikipedia.org

A church was built alongside the village glebelands in 1843 to serve the local miners, quarrymen and railway navvies. en.wikipedia.org

More than 5000 navvies worked on the building during its construction, with up to 2000 on site at one time during the peak building phase. en.wikipedia.org

It left 14 workers (or navvies) dead and three injured. en.wikipedia.org

To his right an older navvy is seen shovelling unsifted lime into a sieve. en.wikipedia.org

He was scrupulously fair with his subcontractors and kind to his navvies, supporting them financially at their times of need. en.wikipedia.org

However, sailors had their own bedding to unroll onto the bare bunk or hammock, whereas many navvies may have had little of their own. en.wikipedia.org

The line was one of the earlier built with the aid of steam navvies. en.wikipedia.org

Newton also took photographs of the navvies working on the construction, as well as the construction itself. en.wikipedia.org

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. en.wikipedia.org

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