Meanings of navvy work in inglés

The roadmakers had done an enormous amount of navvy work on the track between Foka and Tahta.

Not only in farming, but in navvy work, in the rougher work of factories and mines, the same fact is evident.

The Irish emigrant seldom or never takes to the land when he goes to America, and navvy work just suited him.

He was good for nothing now except navvy work, and his broken nose and swollen ear were against him even in that.

These Italian navvies work all day long, their whole life is engaged in the mere brute labour.

If you ask me, I say I lead a dog's life-why ,evena navvy works only for a fixed number of hours per diem!

That which would present no difficulty to a thousand navvies working in open country will be of course more troublesome in a comparatively confined space.