navvy in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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peón caminero
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The building of the line required over a thousand navvies and cost the lives of thirty-two of them, seriously injuring 140 others.
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The lives of about 100 navvies (railway construction workers) were lost during construction.
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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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Using pulleys and ropes hung from the apex of the shear, the navvies hoisted the columns, girders and other parts into place.
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To his right an older navvy is seen shovelling unsifted lime into a sieve.
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The factory took 10,000 navvies to build it, and employed 30,000 workers, mostly women.
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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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A hodcarrier, visible behind the main navvy, is transporting bricks down into the hole.
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The same field also has grassed-over rubble remaining from cottages built by the construction navvies.
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Newton also took photographs of the navvies working on the construction, as well as the construction itself.
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