navvies
Canal construction workers
Navvies is the plural of navvy, a British term for a laborer doing heavy manual work, especially on roads, railways, or canals.
The word derives from "navigator," referring to workers who dug navigation canals in the 18th century.
The navvies worked through the night to complete the tunnel.
Manual job employees
- diggersThose who excavate
- excavatorsMachines for digging earth
- gangsOrganized criminal groups
- manualWritten instructions for use
brawn · strength · endurance · toughness · stamina · hardiness · toil · sweat
Dug water passage
- railwayTrack system for trains
- IrishOf the Emerald Isle
- labourersWorkers doing physical jobs
- gangsOrganized criminal groups
shovels · pickaxes · wheelbarrows · excavation · tunnels · toil · digging · earthmoving
Act of unearthing
- tunnelingDigging underground passages
- foundationsStructural bases below ground
- earthworksConstructed soil fortifications
- trenchingExcavating long narrow cuts
grading · infrastructure · engineering · site · contractor · framework · masonry · bricklaying
workmen
Manual job employees
- diggersThose who excavate
- excavatorsMachines for digging earth
- gangsOrganized criminal groups
manual · brawn · strength · endurance · toughness · stamina · hardiness · toil · sweat · backbreaking
canal
Dug water passage
gangs · shovels · pickaxes · wheelbarrows · excavation · tunnels · toil · digging · earthmoving · transient
excavation
Act of unearthing
- tunnelingDigging underground passages
- foundationsStructural bases below ground
- earthworksConstructed soil fortifications
trenching · grading · infrastructure · engineering · site · contractor · framework · masonry · bricklaying · drainage
tracks
Marks showing passage
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- cuttingsSnipped portions for growing
embankments · sleepers · ballast · tunnel · bridge · junction · signal · gauge · grading · surveying
- Industrial Revolutionsteam engine, railroad, factory, coal, iron
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, manual worker
- canalsGrand Canal, Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Erie Canal, canal boat
- Irish DiasporaIrish immigration, Irish Americans, Irish immigrants, Irish diaspora, emigration
- canal builders
- canal workerslock keeper, bargeman, dredger, bargee
navvieswhite-collar workers
Salaried professional employees
executives · office workers · professionals · intellectuals · clerks
navviesaristocrats
Hereditary ruling class
gentry · landowners · nobility · engineers · gentlemen
navigate, navigator, navigation, navigating, navigable, navigates, navigational, navigators, navvy