Hypertext Webster Gateway: "navvy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Navvy \Nav"vy\, n.; pl. {Navies}. [Abbreviated fr. navigator.]
Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation;
hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building
railroads, embankments, etc. [Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
navvy
n : a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: {drudge}, {peon},
{galley slave}]
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