"navvy" meaning in Anglais

See navvy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: \ˈnæ.vi\ Forms: navvies [plural]
  1. Terrassier peu qualifié travaillant au creusement d’un canal ou à la construction d’une ligne de chemin de fer.
    Sense id: fr-navvy-en-noun-vxbRIqx4 Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Anglais du Royaume-Uni
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: \ˈnæ.vi\ Forms: to navvy [infinitive], navvies [present, third-person, singular], navvied [preterite], navvied [participle, past], navvying [participle, present]
  1. Travailler au creusement d’un canal ou à la construction d’une ligne de chemin de fer.
    Sense id: fr-navvy-en-verb-Zcr9Oa4U Categories (other): Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en anglais, Anglais du Royaume-Uni
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "The Making of a Navvy sur www.railwayarchive.org.uk. Consulté le 7 janvier 2024",
          "text": "Working mostly with pick and shovel, navvying demanded strength and great physical stamina. A lot of navvies had previously worked as agricultural labourers, and doubtless they were accustomed to hard, tiring work. Even so, it was said that it took up to a year to turn a common labourer into a navvy capable of excavating twenty tons of earth in a day.",
          "translation": "Travaillant majoritairement avec une pioche et une pelle, terrasser demandait de la force et une grande endurance physique. De nombreux terrassiers avaient aussi travaillé en tant qu’ouvriers dans les champs et, sans aucun doute, ils étaient habitués aux travaux difficiles et épuisants. Malgré cela, il se disait qu’il fallait jusqu’à un an pour passer de simple ouvrier à un terrassier capable d’excaver vingt tonnes de terre par jour."
        },
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          "ref": "Navvies: workers who built the railways sur www.railwaymuseum.org.uk. Mis en ligne le 16 mai 2018",
          "text": "More recently, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link—Britain's first major new railway for over 100 years, now known as High Speed 1—temporarily resurrected the railway navvy. Modern navvies rely greatly on high-tech machinery and there are much better safeguards for their health and safety, but the work is still dangerous—ten workers were killed during the construction of the Channel Tunnel between 1987 and 1993.",
          "translation": "Plus récemment, le Channel Tunnel Rail Link — la première ligne de chemin de fer majeure depuis plus de 100 ans, maintenant connue comme High Speed 1 — a temporairement réssuscité les navvys ferroviaires. Les navvys modernes sont amplement assistés par des machines high-tech et ils sont bien mieux protégés, mais le travail reste dangereux — dix ouvriers ont été tués lors de la construction du tunnel sous la Manche entre 1987 et 1993."
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          "ref": "C N Trueman, Navvies sur www.historylearningsite.co.uk. Mis en ligne le 31 mars 2015",
          "text": "A good navvy could shift 20 tonnes of earth a day. Navvies new to the job could not manage to keep up with the experienced workers and they frequently managed a half-day’s work only. Time was needed for them to gain the strength and stamina required.",
          "translation": "Un bon ouvrier pouvait bouger 20 tonnes de terre par jour. Les nouveaux ouvriers ne pouvaient pas suivre les ouvriers expérimentés et ils n’arrivaient souvent qu’à effectuer l’équivalent d’une demi-journée de travail. Ils avaient besoin de temps pour gagner la force et l’endurance requises."
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