Usually means: Laborers for construction, especially railways.
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  1. navvies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. navvies: Collins English Dictionary
  3. navvies: Vocabulary.com
  4. Navvies, navvies: Wordnik
  5. navvies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. navvies: Wiktionary
  7. navvies: Dictionary.com
  8. Navvies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. navvies: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. navvies: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Navvies: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See navvy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (navvy)

noun:  (chiefly UK, historical) A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad.
verb:  (intransitive, UK, historical) To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project.
▸ Also see navvy


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