(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 .
Peon
Definition:
(n.) See Poon.
(n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
(n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
(n.) See 2d Pawn.
Example Sentences:
(1) If any of the poor little peons that they don’t care about don’t have that paycheck coming, they can’t buy your stuff.” To those who say robots are taking more jobs than Mexicans, she points to the number of factories across the border.
(2) But more than anything, Maddox – who did not want her picture taken – voted for the incoming president because she sees him as on the side of people like her, those she calls the “peons” at the mercy of big business and indifferent politicians.