1 relation: Navvy.
Navvy
Navvy, a shorter form 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.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_and_epidemics_of_the_19th_century