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Definition of Navvies
1. navvy [n] - See also: navvy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Navvies
Literary usage of Navvies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autobiography and Personal Recollections of John B. Gough: With Twenty-six by John Bartholomew Gough (1870)
"The "navvies"—Irish Begging—Ballad Singers—The "Poet Horse" —Irish ... The railway
navvies are considered the finest Herculean specimens of the British race ..."
2. Our Iron Roads: Their History, Construction and Administration by Frederick Smeeton Williams (1888)
"Cunning of navvies.—Com- .—Nicknames of navvies. ... of navvies. exigencies that
arise MI of a railway, abundant are afforded for testing experience of the ..."
3. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1878)
"The navvies said, " Why, here is a new come to take his place. ... The greater
number of navvies are not navvies born, but join the ranks. ..."
4. Lives of the Engineers by Samuel Smiles (1879)
"In illustration of the extraordinary working energy and powers of endurance of
the English navvies, we may mention that when railway-making extended to ..."
5. Lives of the Engineers by Samuel Smiles (1879)
"In short, the navvies were little better than heathens, and the village of Kilsby
was not restored to its wonted quiet until the tunnel-works were finished, ..."
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