Navvies

What is Navvies?

1.

Unskilled workers on a major building project. Derived from large numbers of Irish workers who came to England in the mid-1700's to dig out the navigational canals.

It took a few thousand navvies to build the Channel Tunnel.

See worker, builder, construction
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