A "navvy" depicted in Ford Madox Brown's painting Work
Navvy, a clipping of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (US), is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects and occasionally (in North America) to refer to mechanical shovels and earth moving machinery. The term was coined in the late 18th century in Great Britain when numerous canals were being built, which were also sometimes known as "navigations".
Navvy, a clipping of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (US), is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering...
from 1909, this machine – Ruston's called it a 'crane navvy' – is the oldest surviving steam navvy in the world. It was originally used at a chalk pit at...
navvies, co-founded the Navvy Mission Society in 1877, along with the Rev. Lewis Moule Evans. This missionary effort was funded by Garnett's "navvy novels"...
an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing. MacGill was born in Glenties...
The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component...
1995). "Phantom Trains Wreak Havoc in Channel Tunnel". The Times. UK. "Navvies". ingenious. 11 March 2008. Archived from the original on 27 July 2009...
Donegal has a long literary tradition in both Irish and English. The Irish navvy-turned-novelist Patrick MacGill, author of many books about the experiences...
eight kilometres (5.0 mi) east of Kicking Horse Pass. Many thousands of navvies worked on the railway. Many were European immigrants. In British Columbia...
400 Catholics were employed).: 280 Tolerated in periods of expansion as navvies and casual labourers,: 87–88 they concentrated in a small enclave, the...
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constructing the Manchester Ship Canal. Initially named the Manchester Ship Canal Navvies Union, Hall was elected as its first secretary, early in 1889, and its...
L1. Lena, M. L. (Spring 2018). "The Navvy and the Navigator: Connecting Phineas Gage and Mark Twain's 'Mean Men'". Mark Twain Journal. 56 (1): 166–200...
including working as a labourer in Tod and Macgregor's shipyard, as a forewoman navvy in the brickworks at Jordanhill, and as a farm labourer. The Partick riots...
Rallarvegen (English: The Navvy Road) is a construction/access road in central Norway that is now popular as a recreation trail for bicyclists. It was...
Dublin Socialist Club, at £1 per week. In Dublin, where he first became a navvy and then a proof reader, Connolly soon split the Socialist Club, forming...
and for his middle name, Zenon. After working as a slaughterman, a road navvy and pea canner in Wisbech, England, he was hired as a music journalist in...
peat factory. He left Vårgårda at age 19, in 1873, for Motala to work as a navvy. Following military service in 1874, he moved to Eskilstuna where he worked...
locomotives and a "steam navvy", following the subterranean path of the tunnel. The construction of the tunnel brought a small army of navvies into the area. They...
and the Rallarvegen goes through the village. The station also features a navvy museum, dedicated to the builders of the railways in Norway. One of Norway's...
Björn, was a Norwegian cook, active as a canteen cook for the railway navvies (workers) during the construction of the Iron Ore Line between Kiruna and...
Hughes claimed to have worked variously as a fruitpicker, tally clerk, navvy, blacksmith's striker, station hand, drover, and saddler's assistant, and...
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