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navvy Definition

Navvy
(n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation

navvy Bedeutung

drudge
peon
navvy
galley slave
a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
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Navvy, a shorter form of navigator or navigational engineer , is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects and occasionally 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", or "eternal navigations", intended to last forever all.