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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".
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Close-up of the principal figure of a navvy from the painting Work.
Close-up of the principal figure of a navvy from the painting Work.
Rallare. Arbete på dubbelspåret mellan Stockholm och Uppsala vid Alsike - Nordiska Museet - NMA.0036614.jpg
Rallare. Arbete på dubbelspåret mellan Stockholm och Uppsala vid Alsike.
Rallare. Arbete på dubbelspåret mellan Stockholm och Uppsala vid Alsike.
The only surviving railway navvy housing in Britain (geograph 1923056).jpg
The only surviving railway navvy housing in Britain
The only surviving railway navvy housing in Britain
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