(n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typical was John Ward, one of my predecessors as MP for Stoke-on-Trent and the leader of the Navvies' Union.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Traditional kåta tents near Narvik Another great hike is the Rallarvegen, a trail built by navvies working on the railway line built to carry iron ore across the mountains to Kiruna in Sweden.
(3) For those reasons we should be on our guard against cruel recommendations from once-powerful Tories such as Tebbit who think our kin deserve to be treated like navvies .
Navy
Definition:
(n.) A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company.
(n.) The whole of the war vessels belonging to a nation or ruler, considered collectively; as, the navy of Italy.
(n.) The officers and men attached to the war vessels of a nation; as, he belongs to the navy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Melanoma is the second most common cancer, after testicular cancer, in males in the U.S. Navy.
(2) I am absolutely sick to the stomach that this iconic Australian news agency would attack the navy in the way that it has,” he said.
(3) Because many individuals begin smoking soon after joining the Navy, effective prevention programs need to be implemented in recruit training and repeated in early training schools.
(4) As aircraft capable of sustaining high "G" maneuvers enter the U.S. Navy Fleet, the reported incidence of cervical injury to aircrew seems to have increased.
(5) India will have three carriers and both China and India are building blue-water [ocean-going] navies.
(6) The simplicity of the Navy method for treating cholera makes it well suited for use in epidemics in populations with no experience in cholera.
(7) Tallents's two children haven't exactly rebelled and joined the navy; one is involved in direct action, but he has chosen climate change.
(8) Two weeks after his forced dismissal, several colleagues threw a going-away party for the retired marine officer at the Army-Navy Club on Farragut Square, a few blocks from the White House.
(9) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(10) Using automatic and observer-operated equipment for monitoring thermal data, observations have been made during Royal Navy Wessex 5 helicopter operations in a sub-Arctic climate.
(11) Founded by the former US Navy Seal Erik Prince, Blackwater seized on the burgeoning private security contracts that emerged after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
(12) The US navy regularly patrols the Asia-Pacific region, conducting joint exercises with its allies and training in the strategic region.
(13) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
(14) They punished three of them, three of them ... so they would never want to go to the toilet again,‘‘ Fasher said, who was on the navy vessel at the time.
(15) The foreign minister, Julie Bishop, told the Australian the Snowden and navy stories were "counterproductive to our interests" and in another interview questioned whether the ABC's contract to operate overseas news channel the Australia Network was providing value for money.
(16) The Associated Press quoted a US security source as saying the Somali raid was carried out by members of the same navy Seal team that killed the al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden.
(17) He has appointed Tory MP Andrew Murrison, a former Royal Navy medical officer, as his special representative for the remembrance.
(18) Bahrain, meanwhile, is picking up the lion’s share of the bill for the construction of a Royal Navy base, the Mina Salman support facility, which will include warehouses, a 300-metre jetty, accommodation, sports pitch and helipad.
(19) Commercial ships have played an important role in rescue operations, responding both to the calls of migrant ships that are in distress and requests for help from the Italian coastguard and navy.
(20) Illness incidence was examined aboard U.S. Navy vessels to ascertain whether sick call rates vary with ship size.